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Popular : a memoir : vintage wisdom for a modern geek

Title
  1. Popular : a memoir : vintage wisdom for a modern geek / Maya Van Wagenen.
Published by
  1. New York : Dutton Juvenile, [2014]
Author
  1. Van Wagenen, Maya

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Description
  1. 259 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
Summary
  1. "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."--
Subject
  1. Self-confidence
  2. Teenage girls
  3. JUVENILE NONFICTION > Biography & Autobiography > Literary
  4. JUVENILE NONFICTION > Social Issues > Adolescence
  5. Self-confidence > Juvenile literature
  6. Literature
  7. Teenage girls > Juvenile literature
  8. JUVENILE NONFICTION > Social Issues > New Experience
  9. Humor
  10. Life skills > Humor
  11. JUVENILE NONFICTION > Humor > General
  12. Juvenile works
Genre/Form
  1. Humor.
  2. Literature.
  3. Juvenile works.
Contents
  1. 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.
Call number
  1. JFE 16-852
Awards (note)
  1. YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Award Winner (2015)
Author
  1. Van Wagenen, Maya, author.
Title
  1. Popular : a memoir : vintage wisdom for a modern geek / Maya Van Wagenen.
Publisher
  1. New York : Dutton Juvenile, [2014]
Type of content
  1. text
Type of medium
  1. unmediated
Type of carrier
  1. volume
Awards
  1. YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Award Winner (2015)
LCCN
  1. 2014000236
ISBN
  1. 9780525426813 (hardback)
  2. 0525426817 (hardback)
Research call number
  1. JFE 16-852
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