Popular: How a Geek in Pearls Discovered the Secret to Confidence
by Maya Van Wagenen
Nonfiction · ages 13–18 · grades 8–12 · 1000L · 272 pages · 2015
Why we'd hand it over
A genuinely funny, unsentimental memoir about the gap between how you think popularity works and how it actually works—Maya's voice is wry and self-aware enough that even kids who think they're too cool for a 'geek story' will read it straight through.