Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #132944 in Books
• Published on: 2007-04-06
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 272 pages

Synopsis
Steph Landry's been a high school pariah - and the butt of every joke imaginable - ever since she spilt her red Super Big Gulp all over 'It Girl' Lauren Moffat's white D&G mini-skirt. But now, Steph's got a secret weapon - an ancient book, "How To Be Popular", which her soon-to-be step-grandmother once used to break in to her A-crowd. All Steph has to do is follow the instructions in The Book and wait for the partying begin! But as Steph's about to discover, it's easy to become popular - it's less easy staying that way...

Customer Reviews

Formulaic and average
If you're a real Meg Cabot fan, you will probably get something out of this book but to me it shows how Meg Cabot is churning out less and less good titles. They all seem very similar and if you've read one then afterwards you will never fail to guess which guy the heroine will get.

The main character (Steph. L) isn't particularly compelling and embarks on an unrealistic mission to become popular which doesn't live up to the expectations which surround a book with such a promising title and premise.

If you're looking for original or flamboyant storytelling then look elsewhere but if you're looking for an easy holiday read then this should be adequate.

Would probably make a good film
And maybe that's why in places this just doesn't quite gell but it's entertaining.

Five years ago Steph Landry spilt a Big Red Gulp on Lauren Moffat's white skirt, irreparably staining it. Lauren coined a phrase, "to do a Steph Landry" or "to do a Steph" about this for anything that people do wrong. It's stuck and it's the bane of Steph's existence. About that time Lauren dropped Steph as a friend and is the most popular girl in the school.

Steph has found a old book on becoming popular and decides to enact some if the ideas in it (updated some of the ideas of course, kid gloves and control pants for example being things to drop). She wants to be noticed by the cool people instead of being relegated to being friends with Jason and Becca who are definitely not part of the in crowd!

While she does this she finds out who her real friends are and finds love. While also finding out what popularity can really mean. The lessons she learns from the book are not only what it has that's right but what's wrong with some of it's ideas. Maybe it is okay not to be part of the popular crowd.

It's not a deep read, nor is is incredibly realistic on some levels as the timescale is a bit shortened for realism but it's a fun read and I found myself laughing out loud at bits of it.

not gonna win any awards but still enjoyable
not the best book that i have read and its obviously not gonna win any awards but for what it is still enjoyable to pass and afternoon so i felt some of the reviews are a bit harsh but thats my opinion. story about trying to change your experience of high school for the better, and most of us have wished that our experiences had been better.

typicalhigh school with all the popular kids depicted in the story, although did feel that steph was a bit blind to the whole being in love with her best friend.