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|summary=Thoughtful, fun, true story of a year spent taking advice from a 1950s popularity guide - with some surprising results. Well worth a read! Jim went to [[Richard James Talks To Bookbag About Popular: The Launch|the book launch]] for Bookbag.
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At the age of 13, Maya Van Wagenen found a 1950 guide to popularity, written by teen model Betty Cornell. Unhappy at school and intrigued by what her dad calls its ''outdated ideas'', she secretly decides to try and change her life by putting the book into practice, a chapter a month. But surely her dad is right, and Betty's words have no place in the modern world? Read this and find out!
