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A review by lumos_libros
How Not to Be Popular by Jennifer Ziegler
4.0
Sugar Magnolia, weird name right? But our main character prefers to go by Maggie. It would be an understatement to say that she moves A LOT. Her parents are the "free sprited" type and don't get tied down to one place. She is fed up with losing friends (and now boyfriend) everytime she moves, so she comes up with a brillant plan (well she thinks it's brillant). At her next school she is going to do everything possible to be the most unpopular student ever, so she'll never have to lose anybody again.
As you can already tell things don't go as planned...
This was a really funny book and it was hard for me to decide how many stars I should give it. I really enjoyed it but there were some things that I don't know... irked me. First of all her parents are probably are an extreme stereotype (I'm assuming), which is bad and good. Her parents bring a lot of comedic moments, but I never have met anybody who really is like her parents. I guess that doesn't mean those kind of people don't exist though. The other thing that bothered me was that realistically Maggie could have done better to become unpopular. She could have been rude, mean, and crude and then defintely she would have been friendless. But if she really did those things we wouldn't have this great story.
You really feel Maggie's pain, and there is one part in the book that I really had to push myself through (you'll get what I mean when you get there). I understand why the author had her do that, but still it was hard to watch.
Wonderful lesson, wish I had read this book in high school.
As you can already tell things don't go as planned...
This was a really funny book and it was hard for me to decide how many stars I should give it. I really enjoyed it but there were some things that I don't know... irked me. First of all her parents are probably are an extreme stereotype (I'm assuming), which is bad and good. Her parents bring a lot of comedic moments, but I never have met anybody who really is like her parents. I guess that doesn't mean those kind of people don't exist though. The other thing that bothered me was that realistically Maggie could have done better to become unpopular. She could have been rude, mean, and crude and then defintely she would have been friendless. But if she really did those things we wouldn't have this great story.
You really feel Maggie's pain, and there is one part in the book that I really had to push myself through (you'll get what I mean when you get there). I understand why the author had her do that, but still it was hard to watch.
Wonderful lesson, wish I had read this book in high school.