A touchingly honest and candidly hysterical memoir from one of Time's most influential teens of 2013.
Maya Van Wagenen is fifteen years old. When she was eleven, her family moved to Brownsville, Texas, the setting of Popular. When not hunched over a desktop writing, Maya enjoys reading, British Television, and chocolate. She now lives with her parents and two siblings in a rural Georgia. She is a sophomore in high school but still shares a room with her sixth grade brother. Remarkably they have not yet killed each other.
Everyone's happiness project looks different, and I was utterly
charmed by Maya Van Wagenen's honest, funny, and thought-provoking
account of her efforts to become 'popular'.
*Gretchen Rubin, #1 bestselling author of The Happiness
Project*
Maya Van Waganen'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. Funny,
determined, and wry, Van Wagenan has written a wise, heartfelt
guide for other kids eager to keep up.
*Rachel Hartman, NYT bestselling author of Seraphina*
Geeky and dorky, but never wimpy, Maya Van Wagenen is as powerful
and honest as she is quirky and funny-and startlingly gifted. She's
the real deal, folks, a teenage John Green for the next generation.
Stunning.
*Margaret Stohl, bestselling co-author of the Beautiful Creatures
series*
A talented writer, she's funny, thoughtful and self-effacing . . .
Teens will readily identify with her
*Kirkus*
Popular is wonderful. It is charming, touching, entertaining - and
brought back a lot of memories about my own high school anxieties.
I will be saving my copy to give to my daughter when she is a
little older
*Glamour*
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