Popular : a memoir : vintage wisdom for a modern geek / Maya Van Wagenen.

Author/creator Van Wagenen, Maya author.
Format Book
PublicationNew York : Dutton, [2014]
Copyright Date©2014
Description259 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Supplemental ContentCover Image
Subjects

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.
Abstract " 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."-- Provided by publisher.
Audience 730 Lexile
LCCN 2014000236
ISBN9780525426813 (hardback)
ISBN0525426817 (hardback)

Availability

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Joyner TRC Nonfiction 155.5 V38P ✔ Available Place Hold