Popular A Memoir



This is her memoir of her 8th grade experiment to become more popular by following the advice of Betty Cornell's book, Teenage Popularity Guide, published in 1951. As the months go by Maya works on her posture and deportment, and her dress style, trying out skirts, pearls, twin sets and a girdle; she tries out different hairstyles and skin care. Margaret Stohl, bestselling co-author of the Beautiful Creatures series 'Maya Van Wagenen's memoir, Popular, would have been wonderful to read as a kid, and so reassuring to Nerdy Teenage Me. Her year-long experiment in popularity is timeless; the intelligent and humane way she gets to the heart of the matter is uniquely her. This memoir is so popular, it's basically a meme. You may already know the basics of Elizabeth Gilbert's journey through Italy, India and Indonesia to recover her sense of self, but this book that. Popular: A Memoir - Vintage Wisdom for a Modern Geek; By: Maya Van Wagenen; Narrated by: Lee Adams, Amber Faith; Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins Categories: Sports & Outdoors, Soccer. Settle On Your Theme. Your unstated theme must be, “You’re not alone.

Author
Van Wagenen, Maya, author.

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Title
Popular a memoir : Vintage wisdom for a modern geek / Maya Van Wagenen.
Format
Popular a memoir book
Book
Published
Popular
New York : Dutton Juvenile, [2014]
Description
259 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
URL
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Contents
  • 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.
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. '-- Provided by publisher.
Subject headings
Self-confidence--Juvenile literature.
Life skills--Humor.
Teenage girls--Juvenile literature.

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Genre heading
Popular memoirs for middle school
Humor.
Juvenile works.
Middle
ISBN
9780525426813 (hardback)
0525426817 (hardback)
Popular A Memoir

Holdings

Library
Blmgtn - Education Library
Call Number
155.533 VAN
Location
Education Library - Children's Collection
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Library
South Bend - Schurz Library
Call Number
BF575.S39 W34 2014
Location
Stacks
Floor
3rd Floor
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