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Popular a memoir : Vintage wisdom for a modern geek Cover Image Book Book

Popular a memoir : Vintage wisdom for a modern geek

Van Wagenen, Maya. (Author).

Summary: "A touchingly honest, candidly hysterical memoir from breakout teen author Maya Van Wagenen Stuck at the bottom of the social ladder at "pretty much the lowest level of people at school who aren't paid to be here," Maya Van Wagenen decided to begin a unique social experiment: spend the school year following a 1950s popularity guide, written by former teen model Betty Cornell. Can curlers, girdles, Vaseline, and a strand of pearls help Maya on her quest to be popular? The real-life results are painful, funny, and include a wonderful and unexpected surprise-meeting and befriending Betty Cornell herself. Told with humor and grace, Maya's journey offers readers of all ages a thoroughly contemporary example of kindness and self-confidence."--

Item details

  • ISBN: 9780525426813
  • ISBN: 0525426817
  • ISBN: 9780525427469
  • ISBN: 0525427465
  • Physical Description: print
    259 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
  • Publisher: New York : Dutton Juvenile, [2014]

Contents / Notes

Formatted Contents Note: Introduction / by Betty Cornell -- Introduction (or how this whole thing came to be) -- September. Figure problems -- October. Hair -- November. Modeling tricks -- December. Skin problems & makeup -- January. Clothes & what to wear where -- February. Good grooming & away from home -- March. Money (how to earn extra) & on the job -- April. Popular attitude: look pretty-be pretty, are you shy? & personality -- May. It's a date & be a hostess -- Epilogue.
Study Program Information Note:
Accelerated Reader 5.0.
Reading Counts! 4.5.
Accelerated Reader AR MG 5.0 8.0 165434.
Reading Counts RC 6-8 4.5 13 Quiz: 63377.
Awards Note:
YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Award Winner (2015)

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  • 3 out of 3 copies are currently available at West Georgia Regional Library System.

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      Crossroads Public Library 		YA BIO VAN WAGENEN WAG ( Send Text)
 31057101602327 YOUNG ADULT BIOGRAPHY Available
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      Douglas County Public Library 		YA BIO VAN WAGENEN WAG ( Send Text)
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      Lithia Springs Betty C. Hagler Public Library 		YA BIO VAN WAGENEN WAG ( Send Text)
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