The Resource Popular : a memoir : vintage wisdom for a modern geek, Maya Van Wagenen
Popular : a memoir : vintage wisdom for a modern geek, Maya Van Wagenen
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- Summary
- When Maya Van Wagenen finds a 1950s Guide to Popularity she embarks on a unique social experiment: for one school year she follows the advice of its author, teen model Betty Cornell. She's determined to see her experiment through, for better or worse. This is a touchingly honest and candidly hysterical memoir from one of Time's most influential teens of 2013
- Language
- eng
- Label
- Popular : a memoir : vintage wisdom for a modern geek
- Title
- Popular
- Title remainder
- a memoir : vintage wisdom for a modern geek
- Statement of responsibility
- Maya Van Wagenen
- Subject
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- trueSocial status
- Beauty, Personal -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature
- trueBiographies -- Identity | Children and teenagers
- trueWagenen, Maya van
- Wagenen, Maya van -- Juvenile literature
- Beauty, Personal -- Juvenile literature
- trueEtiquette
- Popularity -- Juvenile literature
- Cornell, Betty
- truePopularity
- trueTeenage girl misfits
- trueLife skills -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
- trueTeenage girls
- trueNarrative nonfiction for kids and teens
- trueAutobiographies and memoirs
- trueSelf-confidence
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- When Maya Van Wagenen finds a 1950s Guide to Popularity she embarks on a unique social experiment: for one school year she follows the advice of its author, teen model Betty Cornell. She's determined to see her experiment through, for better or worse. This is a touchingly honest and candidly hysterical memoir from one of Time's most influential teens of 2013
- Summary
- Documents a high school student's year-long attempt to change her social status from that of a misfit to a member of the "in" crowd by following advice in a 1950s popularity guide, an experiment that triggered embarrassment, humor and unexpected surprises
- Award
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- YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction, 2015.
- YALSA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults, 2017.
- Biography type
- contains biographical information
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10316554
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Wagenen, Maya van
- Dewey number
- 305.2352
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- no index present
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/lexile
- 730
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/minGradeLevel
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- 4
- 6
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- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Wagenen, Maya van
- Cornell, Betty
- Wagenen, Maya van
- Beauty, Personal
- Popularity
- Beauty, Personal
- Target audience
- adolescent
- http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/titleRemainder
- a memoir : vintage wisdom for a modern geek
- Label
- Popular : a memoir : vintage wisdom for a modern geek, Maya Van Wagenen
- Carrier category
- volume
- Content category
-
- text
- still image
- Control code
- 000052756865
- Dimensions
- 20 cm.
- Extent
- 259 pages
- Form of item
- regular print reproduction
- Isbn
- 9780141353258
- Isbn Type
- (paperback)
- Label
- Popular : a memoir : vintage wisdom for a modern geek, Maya Van Wagenen
- Carrier category
- volume
- Content category
-
- text
- still image
- Control code
- 000052756865
- Dimensions
- 20 cm.
- Extent
- 259 pages
- Form of item
- regular print reproduction
- Isbn
- 9780141353258
- Isbn Type
- (paperback)
Subject
- trueAutobiographies and memoirs
- Beauty, Personal -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature
- Beauty, Personal -- Juvenile literature
- trueBiographies -- Identity | Children and teenagers
- Cornell, Betty
- trueEtiquette
- trueLife skills -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
- trueNarrative nonfiction for kids and teens
- truePopularity
- Popularity -- Juvenile literature
- trueSelf-confidence
- trueSocial status
- trueTeenage girl misfits
- trueTeenage girls
- trueWagenen, Maya van
- Wagenen, Maya van -- Juvenile literature
Genre
- trueAutobiographies and memoirs
- trueBiographies
- trueHandbooks, manuals, etc
- Juvenile literature
- trueNarrative nonfiction for kids and teens
Included in
- trueYALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults
- trueYALSA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults: Biography: Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story (2017)
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