How to Be Popular

Cabot, Meg

ISBN 10: 0739336681 ISBN 13: 9780739336687

Publisher: Listening Library (Audio), 2006

Synopsis

Do you want to be popular?
Stephanie Landry does. That’s why this year, she has a plan to get in with the It Crowd in no time flat. She’s got a secret weapon: an old book called–what else?–How to Be Popular.
What does it take to be popular?
All Steph has to do is follow the instructions in The Book, and soon she’ll be partying with the It Crowd (including school quarterback Mark Finley) instead of sitting on The Hill Saturday nights, stargazing with her nerdy best pal Becca, and even nerdier Jason.
But don’t forget the most important thing about popularity! It’s easy to become popular. What isn’t so easy? Staying that way.

About this title

About the Author:

Meg Cabot is the author of many books (not all under her real name), including The Princess Diaries, an ALA Best Book for Young Adults and an ALA Quick Pick for Reluctant Readers. She is still waiting fo her real parents, the king and queen, to restore her to her rightful throne. She currently resides in New York City with her husband and a one-eyed cat named Henrietta.
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From School Library Journal:

Grade 8 Up—Meg Cabot's legions of fans will thoroughly enjoy her latest book (HarperTeen, 2006) focusing on the ever-important teen topic of popularity. The story centers on first-person narrator Steph Landry, so unpopular in her small Indiana town that a minor social faux pas in sixth grade has dogged her footsteps all the way to this first week of her junior year of high school. But now Steph has a secret weapon, a book on popularity she found and has used as a blueprint to design her way into the "It Crowd." At first, the reading of passages from "The Book" can be confusing by breaking into the story line, but soon listeners will realize that the excerpts focus on the coming plot events. In the last few chapters of the novel, "The Book" is replaced by intriguing quotes from famous people decrying popularity as a measure of anything. This mirrors Steph's growing awareness that popularity is really the same as having genuine friendships and the respect of others. Kate Reinders reads the sixteen-year-old point of view with a perfect combination of inflection and tone. A must for Cabot fans.— Jane P. Fenn, Corning-Painted Post West High School, Painted Post, NY
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About this edition

• Publisher: Listening Library (Audio)
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0739336681
• ISBN 13: 9780739336687
• Binding: Audio CD