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Populazzi by Elise Allen

Populazzi

Elise Allen

HarperCollins · Print & ebook · August 7, 2012

A Young Adult pick for readers exploring Populazzi.

Contemporary YA RomanceFriendship for TeensPeer Pressure for Teensromance
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Who it’s for
A new-school reinvention game turns tangled, making social ambition ripe for comedy and second thoughts.
Themes
Popularity and social status, Relationships, Self-transformation
Pacing
Fast

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About this book

Cara has never been one of those girls: confident, self-possessed, and always ready with the perfect thing to say. A girl at the very top of the popularity tower. One of the Populazzi. Now, junior year could change everything. Cara’s moving to a new school, and her best friend urges her to seize the moment—with the help of the Ladder.

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Its rungs are relationships, and if Cara transforms into the perfect girlfriend for guys ever-higher on the tower, she’ll reach the ultimate goal: Supreme Populazzi. The Ladder seems like a lighthearted social experiment, a straight climb up, but it quickly becomes gnarled and twisted. And when everything goes wrong, only the most audacious act Cara can think of has a chance of setting things even a little bit right.

Popularity, With Complications

A new-school reinvention game turns tangled, making social ambition ripe for comedy and second thoughts.

Come here for

  • A wry take on popularity, dating, and trying to become someone else
  • The awkward thrill of a fresh start at a new school

Expect

  • Romantic comedy with a social ladder that gets knottier by the rung
  • A sharp turn from lighthearted experiment to things going wrong

Where it sits

Contemporary YA Romance65%
Friendship for Teens54%
Peer Pressure for Teens36%

Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.

Publisher categories

  • YA Stories About Girls & Women
  • Funny YA
  • YA Romance
  • Contemporary YA Romance
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  • School Stories for Teens
  • Dating & Sex for Teens
  • Friendship for Teens
  • New Experiences for Teens
Authors
Elise Allen
Publisher
HarperCollins
Published
August 7, 2012
Format
Print & ebook
Theme
Popularity and social status · Relationships · Self-transformation
Reading lane
YA Stories About Girls & Women