Reviewed by Me for TeensReadToo.com

If you've ever heard the phrase "Way to pull a Steph Landry!," you wouldn't be alone. Pretty much everyone who attends Bloomville High in the heart of Greene County, Indiana, knows who Steph Landry is. Or, they at least know better than to ever, ever, ever do something that would have someone uttering the aforementioned phrase. Even kids under the age of five know what it means to "pull a Steph Landry." In that they know it means instant social doom.

So what di More...

I found How To Be Popular a light, funny chick-lit.

It really wasn’t something people would remember forever. I personally think Teen Idol was slightly better, but my memory’s fuzzy and I can’t quite piece the plot together right now. Both stories were similar, I guess, in the aspect they’re both about girls going through high-school.

This one is no exception from Teen Idol. It has similar characters: a misunderstood main character, a swoon-worthy love-interest, the best guy-friend, the weird girl More...

Main character Steph has to live down her social suicide of 5 years before- when she spilled red soda all over the most popular girl in school. Finding a book about popularity from the 1950s (it seems) she decides to follow the advice so she won't be such a "Steph" anymore.

Filled with bitchy popular girls and their cliques, the hot quarterback and the rest of the usual cast of high school, How to be Popular is a cute teen lit book. We can see the ending coming in the first chapter, but the story More...

I think this is a great book for every person to read, no matter what your age. The story is focused on Stephanie Landry wanting to be part of the popular crowd mainly because she’s in love with quarterback Mark Finley, the most popular student at Steph’s school. It doesn’t take long for Steph, an ordinary girl, to take matters into her hands and with the help of a book on how to be popular which she got in a box of old books from her best friend Jason’s grandmother, and some money she borrowed More...

** Review originally posted Bookish Musings!**

Let's just all take a minute to thank Meg Cabot for writing this lovely novel. This is definitely a favorite of mine. I loved every minute of reading it and I laughed and was shocked a lot, which is always a good thing of course.

The novel is about sixteen-year-old Steph wants to be popular. After an accident (involving the Cherry Super Big Gulp) she's been made fun of ever since. "Don't pull a Steph Landry!" and "Way to pull a Steph!" has been the wo More...

Teenlit banget :p
well, lagi kehabisan stok buku sendiri dan mulai ngacak-ngacak perpustakaan sekolah. Dan mau bagaimanapun juga, Meg Cabot selalu asik dalam semua karangannya. So it's worth to try, hehe.

Yang pertama terlintas di pikiran: satir banget!
Judul buku amat, sangat menipu. Orang bisa dengan mudahnya ngira ini sejenis buku motivasi ecek-ecek, dan yang baca (termasuk gue) pun bisa waswas, takut dikira shallow XD Maksudnya begini, kepopuleran adalah semacam hal paling klise sebenernya di More...

I like these light, fun books by Meg Cabot. They end more happy than is really believable, but I love a positive ending, even if I have to overlook a few plot holes.

"How to Be Popular" is about a young teenager who decides she wants to integrate herself into the popular crowd in school. Her inspiration is a book she finds entitled "How to Be Popular." Her intelligence and resourcefulness allows her to accomplish this feat; however, she runs into situations that force her to chose between remain More...

During one of my "breaks" in Sydney, I found a nice library down by Circ. Quay and I sat and read this book from Calbot over a few days. It was your same, regular, what you would expect book from the same author of the Princess Diaries. The girl was super selfish and only could think of me-me-me but of course everything works out in the end. The Girl finds a book from her friends grandmother on how to be popular and for some reason, she wants to be, so when the new school year starts, she follow More...

The summer of romance novels is branching into young adult novels. One of the women in my newly founded writers group is writing a young adult novel. I thought that to be able to better critique her, I should renew my familiarity with the genre, which led me to this book by Ms. Cabot who seems to be one of the top writers. As noted in my review of The Popularity Plan, this book is quite reminiscent of that one, which was published when both Ms. Cabot & I were in high school.

It's a fun easy More...

OMG!!!! I just really have to say that this book is completely amazing. Meg Cabot sums up every girl's (or maybe...um, boys?) dreams of being popular-and the real reality. It is pretty hard to make normal school life sound interesting unless you're writing something paranormal, like angels, vampires or the like (trust me, I've seen almost all of the variations you can possibly get.).

"Crazytop" (courtesy of Jason, here) aka Steph Landry is known for the saying, "way to pull a Steph Landry,". Tha More...

I actually read this a few months ago and promptly forgot everything about it. How To Be Popular is a standard, disposable piece of YA fluff. It’s simple, it’s quick, and overall, it’s enjoyable if you have no expectations of reading something fantastic (or even memorable, in this case).

How To Be Popular is about Steph Landry, an average, yet lovable highschooler in a small town. Although she is far from friendless, she is not at all popular, mostly due to an embarrassing junior high school inci More...

Ok. This is seriously an overly cheesy friendship romance book. I am completely the wrong age group to be reading this. I am 16 and the recommended age is 12. The only reason I even picked this book up was to make it into a DUO piece for my Speech and Debate class. My partner and I like to perform cheesy pieces because we can make fun of them pretty well. When I finished the book I was so done with reading it. I just wanted to know the ending and start cutting for my DUO piece. With that said th More...

well, mulai lagi baca teenlitnya nih . abisan duit udah mulai abis jadi muali ngerental lagi deh :p

hooo khas tante Meg banget deh pokoknya, menurut gue pribadi nih ya ga ada bosennya kao baca teenlit ato chicklitnya tante meg . well, walaupun kali ini masih seputar cewe-nggak-populer-yang-sebenernya-bisa-populer-tapi-gak-pernah-ngerasa-dirinya-populer . lah bingung kan? sama gue juga!

di awal-awal aja gue udah serasa di bawa ke dunia Princess Mia, yess Mia Thermopolis yang itu . yah walaupun ini More...

Steph Landry has been the laughing stock of her school forever. Well, for five years anyways, ever since she spilled a drink all over the skirt of Lauren, who was (and still is) the most popular girl in school. In spite of the fact that Steph apologized profusely and her father bought Lauren a new skirt when the stain wouldn't come out, Lauren still made Steph's life hell at school.

But that's about to change.

During summer break Steph discovered a book which has given her all the secrets to being More...

Buku ini lucu banget! Sewaktu membaca buku ini, berkali-kali saya menegur diri sendiri: “Kenapa nggak dari dulu-dulu sih, baca buku-bukunya tante Meg? Bagus begini bukunya.”

Well, sebenarnya formula yang dipakai Meg Cabot dalam buku-buku remajanya cukup umum, bahkan mungkin sudah basi. How To Be Popular mengingatkan saya pada buku All-American Girl dan film Princess Diaries (iya, saya belum membaca seri Princess Diaries satu pun), yaitu tentang gadis-yang-tadinya-nggak-popuper-kemudian-mendadak-j More...

The Queen of Teen has done it once again.

How to be Popular is a cute YA story of a young lady who was tired of being picked on all because five years prior she happened to spill a Big Gulp on the popular girl. Every since, if anyone did anything stupid, it was known as ‘pulling a Steph Landry.’ Well, not her Junior year, Steph was going to take her life back, and be Popular!

Stephanie Landry happened to find a book that had been up in the attic from her soon-to-be step-grandmother, who was very More...

Well it would be one less star if it wasn't for Jason. A guy like him deserves 1 whole star.

How To be Popular is about a girl named Steph. She's a social reject. She has been since she spilt red Super Big Gulp over Lauren whose the MOST popular girl in school. And Lauren has never forgotten about that incident EVER! But this year Steph is making sure she joins the A-Crowd. She has a plan and her secret weapon is a book called How TO be Popular. She uses this book is help her become popular (I ha More...

How to Be Popular is a book for someone who wants to read about life in high school. Readers can get the feel of being teased in elementary to high school and being picked on by the popular kids.

Meet Steph Landry, she's your normal high school student. She gets picked on by the popular kids because of a "huge" accident involving a Super Big Red Gulp drink. The girl she spilled the drink on will not forget this incident and plans to ruin her social status by making a huge joke out of her name. O More...

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Popular: adj. Widely liked or appreciated; liked by many acquantances; sought after for company.

Popularity.
We all want it. Why? Because being pouplar means being liked. Everyone wants to be liked.
Sadly, however, not all of us are.

So what do pouplar people have in common that makes them all so popular?

They all have:
*A friendly way about them.
*An eagerness to pitch in and help get the job done.
*An interest in everythign that goes on at work or school.
*A look that's fresh and neat.

These aren More...

Book Review: How to be popular
About 2 months ago I finished the book How to be popular by Meg Cabot. Meg Cabot is one of my favorite authors, and has many books for young adults. Her books are mostly about a girls faced with problems or find out something and have to cope with it. She writes books from the point of view of girls that are already in their teens / high schoolers

The main character Stephanie / Steph Laundry had an incident with one of the popular girls Lauren Moffatt in the sixth gr More...

I give this a 3 out of 5 stars


Do you want to be popular? But you don't know how to. Then, try reading this book.


Once there was a girl who wish to be popular, Steph Landry is her name. Steph, is not your average kind of girl. She's pretty, not! And she is cool, so not! But she's popular in some ways. Not popular because she's pretty, wears branded clothes or smart. Rather, she is popular because of the saying, "Way to pull a Steph Landry". Then one day, while cleaning the attic of her best frien More...

I did expect it to be predictably predictable as most chicklits are. But I still had high hopes for it considering that Meg Cabot is one of my favorite author. Unfortunately, I think this is one of her weakest work. It's a bit boring in the beginning and the funny parts aren't even that funny. I never laughed out loud reading this book as I did some of her other better works.

Spoiler alerts!!!!!

"Way to pull a Steph Landry."

This book is a classic tale of a girl trying to be popular, succeeding, losing it, realizing she'd rather be herself. Frankly it is quite well developed but very predictable, considering she likes the popular guy, he turns out to be a jerk, she goes on to date her best friend. So predictable but I have to say I didn't want to put this book down. I didnt want it to end. The popular girl never gave up trying to annoy Steph. But I love the tail end. T More...

Stephanie used to have a chance at being popular until she accidentally dumped a cherry drink on the most popular girl in school. Her best friends Becca and Jason (who got really handsome over the summer) try to convince her that being popular is not want she thinks. But, this year she is going to turn things around with her secret weapon, a book called “How to Be Popular.” This book is going to change her life;she will finally be back in the in crowd and with Mark (the hottest boy at school.) I More...

Characters: 5/5
character growth/personality: 5/5
plot: 5/5
romance: 4/5
ending: 5/5
total: 24/25
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I loved the characters! There was alot of character growth and such in this book, well for Steph.
She wanted to be popular, and learned how to becuase of a book called (wait for it): How to Be Popular.
well... what a creative title XD
and she learns that being popular isn't about changing who you are, but it's about staying who you are.
There were some of the popular More...

The thing that i learned from this book was that we can't change who we are. We have to be proud with who we are and what God made us to be. I also learned that we can't leave are friends brcause the friends that you've laughed with and had ups and downs with and gave advice too, those are your true friends and yoyu can't trade your true friends for someone you think is cool or popular.
The book is a about a group of teenagers who are best friends,beca, jason and stephanie, the thing is that the More...

Okay yes, maybe this book is sappy, predictable and very girly although i still loved it probably because i can relate to these teens who are the rejects of the school. The relationship between Steph and Jason is really cute and you know, predictabale because .... ok i'll stop there before i reveal the whole plot!!!

Full review also posted here on TotalTeenFiction

This review is of the audiobook edition.

Plot review:
This was my first experience of reading (or in this case listening to!) Meg Cabot and she's an author I've always wanted to read. I was drawn to this book by the title because it sounded right up my street! The book follows Steph Landry in her conquest to go from social outcast to one of the most popular students in school using a book she discovers that gives hints and tips on how to be popular.

T More...