![]() ![]() ![]() Her crazy antics - like wearing a girdle to school! - will leave readers laughing. POPULAR: VINTAGE WISDOM FOR A MODERN GEEK has a fun premise, and sweet, smart, sensitive Maya is a girl lots of tween and teen readers can relate to. This book could provoke some great conversations about what it means to be popular. Drug-sniffing dogs come into her classroom. Her school goes into lockdown when an armed robber's loose in the neighborhood. There's a photo of smoke from a gun battle across the border in Mexico. Pregnant girls get in a fistfight at school. Another boy tickles Maya even after she tells him not to, and a teacher encourages her to report him. A boy on the autism spectrum tells Maya she's beautiful every time she sees him a teacher tells her to let her know if it ever makes her feel uncomfortable. Maya also reveals what her mother has taught her about tampons. Maya's teacher uses some pretty frank words about body parts and STDs when it comes time for sex education. Parents need to know that Popular: Vintage Wisdom for a Modern Geek is a memoir written by a middle school girl who, as an experiment, uses a 1950s guide to popularity to see if it can help her rise above the rank of “Social Outcast.” (That guidebook, Betty Cornell’s Teen-Age Popularity Guide, has been reprinted by Dutton and released in conjunction with Popular.) There's some talk of crushes and some dating. ![]()
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