Popular : a memoir : vintage wisdom for a modern geek
Wagenen, Maya van2014
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Place reservation for Popular : a memoir : vintage wisdom for a modern geekA 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.
Main title:
Popular : a memoir : vintage wisdom for a modern geek / Maya Van Wagenen.
Author:
Wagenen, Maya van, author
Imprint:
London : Penguin Books, 2014.
Collation:
259 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm
Audience:
Adolescent.
ISBN:
01413532529780141353258 (pbk)
Dewey class:
305.2'352'092J305.235305.235B WAG
Local class:
F920/WAG
Language:
English
Subject:
Wagenen, Maya van -- Juvenile literatureCornell, Betty. Teen-age popularity guidePopularity -- Juvenile literatureBeauty, Personal -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literatureTeenage girls -- Life skills guides -- Juvenile literatureNon-Fiction 13+People and PlacesTeenage Non-FictionSocietyTeenage girls -- Life skills guides -- Juvenile literatureAccelerated readerAccelerated reader -- AR5.0Accelerated reader -- AR5
BRN:
1618747
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