Popular: Vintage Wisdom For A Modern Geek by Maya Van
Wagenen, 259 pages
This is a memoir by Maya, who, right before her eighth grade
year, discovers a 1950’s popularity guide written by former teen model, Betty
Cornell. At her mother’s suggestion,
Maya decides to follow the advice in the book and keep notes to see if the
advice from the 1950’s would hold true in today’s world. Maya is someone who considers herself
unpopular, one of the social outcasts in her school. Each month she takes a different chapter from
the book and follows the advice from that chapter. She changes her diet, hairstyles, and clothes
and starts wearing makeup. She also
starts to talk to kids she never would have approached before. This book is written in a diary format and
follows each month through so we get to see which changes Maya is trying to
bring about and how they are affecting her life. This book is actually very funny and
extremely well written, especially for such a young person. I really enjoyed reading it and think that a
lot of teens as well as adults would probably enjoy it.
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