<div> <p> <b><b>A touchingly honest, candidly hysterical memoir from breakout teen author Maya Van Wagenen</b></b></p> <p> 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?<i> </i></p> <p> 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.</p> <p> <b> </b></p> <b></b></div>