Popular: Vintage Wisdom for a Modern Geek (A Memoir)

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 ProjectMaya 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 SeraphinaGeeky 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 seriesA 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 – Jo Elvin * Glamour *

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 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.

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