Popular: Vintage Wisdom for a Modern Geek

By Maya Van Wagenen

This memoir of Maya Van Wagenen's eighth grade year is one part 1950s popularity guidebook mixed with two parts courage and one truly modern geek girl. She uses Betty Cornell's Teenage Popularity Guide to take on the social hierarchy of her school and manages to achieve acceptance and understanding.


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