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How Not to Be Popular

by Jennifer Ziegler

A new city, a deliberate distance

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A new city, a deliberate distance

Maggie Dempsey has spent years being uprooted by her parents’ frequent moves. After losing friends, a school, a sense of belonging, and a boyfriend along the way, she arrives in Austin determined not to get attached—or to let anyone get attached to her. The story’s central tension comes from that self-protective plan colliding with the unpredictable experience of starting over. Its focus on relocation, friendship, and belonging gives the novel a clear social coming-of-age frame, with Maggie’s resistance to connecting shaping the premise.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Teens and young adults interested in stories about moving and starting over.
  • Readers drawn to coming-of-age fiction centered on friendship, belonging, and social change.

Themes

Frequent relocationFriendship and belongingSelf-protectionNew experiences

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Book overview

Maggie Dempsey is tired of moving all over the country. Her parents are second-generation hippies who uproot her every year or so to move to a new city. When Maggie was younger, she thought it was fun and adventurous. Now that she's a teenager, she hates it. When she moved after her freshman year, she left behind good friends, a great school, and a real feeling of belonging. When she moved her sophomore year, she left behind a boyfriend, too. Now that they've moved to Austin, she knows better. She's not going to make friends. She's not going to fit in. Anything to prevent her from liking this new place and them from liking her. Only . . . things don't go exactly as planned.
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