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Popular : vintage wisdom for a modern geek / Maya Van Wagenen.

By: Material type: TextTextDescription: 259 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780525426813 (hardback)
  • 0525426817 (hardback)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 155.5/33 23
LOC classification:
  • BF575.S39 W34 2014
Online resources: Summary: "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 type: Book List(s) this item appears in: Biographies & Memoirs | High-Interest Non-Fiction
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Martha's Vineyard High School Library 921/WAGENEN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 39844500039819

"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. "--

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