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In How To Be Popular, author Meg Cabot, offers older children, an insightful glimpse into the trials and tribulations of teendom, and the constant struggle to achieve popularity.
Summary Of The Book
Steph Landry, is the unpopular protagonist, of Cabot’s novel. After becoming the inspiration to the expression, “Don’t pull a Steph Landry”, in the sixth grade, Steph learns to be content with just her best friend, Jason. When she enters the eleventh grade, Steph realizes she would enjoy her high school much more, if she was popular.
The plot pushes forward when Steph discovers a manual on reputation resuscitation, called How To Be Popular. She wastes no time in adopting some of the suggestions outlined in the book. For instance, she starts the school by flat ironing her hair, sitting with new people at lunch and even organizing an auction event. Much to Steph’s amazement, her efforts begin to reap rewards, as her popularity level begins to rise. What she does not anticipate however, is the impact her newfound fame is having on her best friend or on her nemesis.
Meg Cabot’s In How To Be Popular, has received many awards and accolades. It was on The New York Times Children’s Chapter Books Best Seller List for nine weeks. It also graced the Best Seller lists of USA Today and Publishers Weekly. In 2007, the New York Public Library selected this novel as a “Book For The Teen Age”.
About Meg Cabot
Meg Cabot, is an author and writer, who writes under various pen names, such as Meggin, Patricia and Jenny Carroll.
Apart from In How To Be Popular, she authored several popular book series such as The Princess Diaries, Avalon High, and Mediator. Some of the other books she’s written are Shadowland, Safe House, Code Name Cassandra, Missing You, The Merlin Prophecy, Hunter's Moon, Underworld , Best Friends and Drama Queens, Glitter Girls and the Great Fake Out, and Blast From the Past.
Cabot uses a narrative style in her novel. Through endearing glimpses, readers can get a clear sense of the some of the painful experiences in high school.
Cabot graduated from Indiana University. She is married to Benjamin D. Egnatz. Cabot divides her time between Key West, New York and Indiana.
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