How to be Popular By: Meg Cabot

A book that I have read recently is How to be Popular by Meg Cabot. This book is about how Steph [the main character] thinks that being popular will make her happy and give her everything she could ever want in high school. She finds an old book of her friends grandmas, titled How to be Popular. It is a book of lists of things to do to become popular. She thinks that all she has to do is follow the directions in the book and it will just come to her. What she doesn't realize is how much she will lose while trying to become popular and how fast she gets there, but how long can she stay there. Steph is slowly drifting away from her friends and they are getting mad and frustrated with her and don't understand why it matters to her so much to become popular. While she is becoming popular she can't wait to get there and thinks that it will solve all of her problems. Once she is there, she sees that it isn't all she thought it would be and finally realizes how much she has lost. Even with the popularity she has obtained, she is losing her best friends and finds it harder to be popular than to be happy where she was. This book shows how being popular is not all that matters and to just be happy with what you have.