![]() ![]() New to her rough, seriously disadvantaged school on the Texas–Mexico border, Maya has quickly worked out the social hierarchy. Remarkably they have not yet killed each other. ![]() She is a sophomore in high school but still shares a room with her sixth grade brother. She now lives with her parents and two siblings in a rural Georgia. When not hunched over a desktop writing, Maya enjoys reading, British Television, and chocolate. When she was eleven, her family moved to Brownsville, Texas, the setting of Popular. Told with humour and grace, Maya’s journey offers readers of all ages a thoroughly contemporary example of kindness and self-confidence.Ībout the author: Maya Van Wagenen is fifteen years old. The real-life results are painful, funny, and include a wonderful and unexpected surprise-meeting and befriending Betty Cornell herself. Can curlers, girdles, Vaseline, and a strand of pearls help Maya on her quest to be popular? ![]() 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. Popular: Vintage Wisdom for a Modern Geek is a touchingly honest, candidly hysterical memoir from breakout teen author Maya Van Wagenen. ![]()
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