I kind of hoped for this experience in high school but lol nope I'm now in uni and realise I completely didn't meet my 12 year old expectations… This book is my fave and I hold it dearly to my heart. needed a cliche, happy ending (which is still the bomb) need a bit of awkwardness like Bridget Jones who had a bit of pervy habits need chick lit but for a younger audience than most chick lit books This impacted me greatly during the incoming high school years- I feel like I was more level headed about the fascination of popularity. I got it for my birthday and my friend who gave it to me said 'my mum thought of you and thought it would be good for you' you GUYZZZZ I didn't EVER want to touch this book. I'm not going to write a full-blown review for this. Read more bookish goodness on my book blog: Cal's YA Reads Meg currently divides her time between Key West, Indiana, and New York City with a primary cat (one-eyed Henrietta), various back-up cats, and her husband, who doesn't know he married a fire horse. Her new paranormal series, Abandon, debuts in Summer of 2011. Meg is now writing a new children's series called Allie Finkle's Rules for Girls. In addition, Meg wrote the Mediator and 1-800-Where-R-You? series (on which the television series, Missing, was based), two All-American Girl books, Teen Idol, Avalon High, How to Be Popular, Pants on Fire, Jinx, a series of novels written entirely in email format (Boy Next Door, Boy Meets Girl, and Every Boy's Got One), a mystery series (Size 12 Is Not Fat/ Size 14 Is Not Fat Either/Big Boned), and a chick-lit series called Queen of Babble. She is now the author of nearly fifty books for both adults and teens, selling fifteen million copies worldwide, many of which have been #1 New York Times bestsellers, most notably The Princess Diaries series, which is currently being published in over 38 countries, and was made into two hit movies by Disney. She worked various jobs to pay the rent, including a decade-long stint as the assistant manager of a 700 bed freshmen dormitory at NYU, a position she still occasionally misses. After six years as an undergrad at Indiana University, Meg moved to New York City (in the middle of a sanitation worker strike) to pursue a career as an illustrator, at which she failed miserably, forcing her to turn to her favorite hobby-writing novels-for emotional succor.

Fortunately she grew up in Bloomington, Indiana, where few people were aware of the stigma of being a fire horse - at least until Meg became a teenager, when she flunked freshman Algebra twice, then decided to cut her own bangs. Meg Cabot was born on February 1, 1967, during the Chinese astrological year of the Fire Horse, a notoriously unlucky sign. Librarian note: AKA Jenny Carroll (1-800-Where-R-You series), AKA Patricia Cabot (historical romance novels).

How to Be Popular by Meg Cabot