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The Popularity Papers: Research for the Social Improvement and General Betterment of Lydia Goldblatt & Julie Graham-Chang
by
Amy Ignatow (Goodreads Author)
Lydia Goldblatt and Julie Graham-Chang are best friends with one goal: to crack the code of popularity. Lydia’s the bold one: aspiring theater star, stick-fighting enthusiast, human guinea pig. Julie’s the shy one: observer and artist, accidental field hockey star, faithful recorder. In this notebook they write down their observations and carry out experiments to try to de...more
Hardcover, 208 pages
Published
April 1st 2010
by Harry N. Abrams
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There are good and bad results that occur when a book like Diary of a Wimpy Kid hits the stratosphere. On the one hand, suddenly publishers are a lot more open-minded about breathing life into books that mix text and images in new and unique ways. The door opens a little wider for unconventional titles that straddle a variety of writing genres and styles and (normally) don't win any literary awards. That's the good. The bad thing is that as a result any book that tries to make any headway in the...more
An illustrated journal in the style of Amelia’s Notebook, The Popularity Papers documents Lydia and Julie’s preparations to become popular when they begin middle school. They document and try the activities of the popular girls, like dyeing a streak in their hair, or taking up knitting.
This is the usual unpopular friends try to become popular and grow apart when one of them has success, before realizing they need to be themselves story, but it’s clever and the artwork is excellent, and it’s rea...more
This is the usual unpopular friends try to become popular and grow apart when one of them has success, before realizing they need to be themselves story, but it’s clever and the artwork is excellent, and it’s rea...more
Lydia and Julie observe the behaviors of the popular girls in their fifth grade class and hope they can learn their way into their crowd.
This is a refreshing option in this era of graphic epistolary humor novels for juveniles. Wimpy Kid brings hilarity/embarassment, Dear Dumb Diary is its female counterpart, the Dork Diaries mainly chronicles the petty behavior and drama of middle school girls, but the Popularity Papers is different. Perhaps because of the fact that it takes place in fifth grade...more
This is a refreshing option in this era of graphic epistolary humor novels for juveniles. Wimpy Kid brings hilarity/embarassment, Dear Dumb Diary is its female counterpart, the Dork Diaries mainly chronicles the petty behavior and drama of middle school girls, but the Popularity Papers is different. Perhaps because of the fact that it takes place in fifth grade...more
I actually enjoyed reading this graphic novel more than I anticipated. The author visited my daughter's school so she checked out a few of her titles, and I picked this one up -- perhaps it would open an avenue of discussion about popularity and social dynamics with Annie -- with pretty low expectations, thinking it was yet another disposable series book about popularity that the YA publishing industry is drowning in. I am not a literary snob and think readers of all ages deserve their trashy re...more
HILARIOUS! I loved every bit of this story. And, I love that it shows real friendship between two girls without it getting too sappy.
My name is Lydia Goldblatt. Me and my best friend Julie have decided that being popular in middle school is important enough for us conduct a very secretive research project on how to be cool. We figure, the more information, the better. So, we will observe and report back to you for the Social Improvement and General of Betterment of us all. We will hatch plans to...more
My name is Lydia Goldblatt. Me and my best friend Julie have decided that being popular in middle school is important enough for us conduct a very secretive research project on how to be cool. We figure, the more information, the better. So, we will observe and report back to you for the Social Improvement and General of Betterment of us all. We will hatch plans to...more
I picked up this book for our genre reading project because this series has been really popular with the kids since we purchased it for the library. And now I see why! Julie and Lydia are fifth graders who are determined to be popular next year when they move up to middle school. To that end, they decide to observe all the popular girls and write about them and their attempts to emulate them. The book is printed just like it would be a notebook shared by two girls - the type is in handwriting an...more
In the ever-growing field of the illustrated novel, this title stands out as especially multi-faceted, charming, and unique. It follows the journey of two best friends who share a notebook as they desperately study the popular girls at their elementary school, so they will have a leg up in middle school. Julie is a burgeoning artist, a little more reserved, and lives with her two dads and goth sister Melody; Lydia is more bold and daring, lives with her divorced mom, and had an ambition to sing...more
I really like the way this book was done. It falls into the category most commonly referred to these days as Wimpy Kid readalikes, but it's not an imitation. The book is the shared journal/scrapbook of Lydia and Julie, who are in their last year before moving on to Junior High. They've observed that Lydia's older sister went from perky blond in elementary school to scary goth in Junior High, so they figure it's the perfect time to transition from unpopular nobodies to popular. Their plan is to o...more
The full title of this book is "The Popularity Papers: Research for the Social Improvement and General Betterment of Lydia Goldblatt and Julie Graham-Chang." The subtitle explains the premise of this terrific middle grade novel. Fifth graders, Julie and Lydia, embark on a project they call the Popularity Papers. They are on a quest to study popularity and to be popular themselves. They would like to start junior high next year ahead of the curve.
This may sound scary to some parents. Perhaps you...more
This may sound scary to some parents. Perhaps you...more
Rating: 3.5/5 Stars
About the Book: Lydia and Julie are not popular so these best friends decide to figure out what makes popular people so popular in the first place. The girls plan out different experiments and keep track of their results and observations in a notebook which they share. As the girls undergo their popularity research, they find themselves less popular, in trouble, and drifting apart.
GreenBeanTeenQueen Says: I picked this book up because it was sitting on the new shelf in the ch...more
About the Book: Lydia and Julie are not popular so these best friends decide to figure out what makes popular people so popular in the first place. The girls plan out different experiments and keep track of their results and observations in a notebook which they share. As the girls undergo their popularity research, they find themselves less popular, in trouble, and drifting apart.
GreenBeanTeenQueen Says: I picked this book up because it was sitting on the new shelf in the ch...more
This is Lydia Goldblatt and Julie Graham-Chang's secret illustrated research journal, which they created in elementary school in order to help them become more popular. They decide to observe (and record their observations) of the popular girls in their school and try to figure out what it is that makes them popular – so that they can emulate their behavior, dress, etc. and become popular themselves.
Some of their conclusions and the ways they go about achieving (well, attempting to achieve, any...more
Some of their conclusions and the ways they go about achieving (well, attempting to achieve, any...more
Lydia Goldblatt and Julie Graham-Chang have been best friends since they were babies. In their quest to enter middle school as part of the popular crowd, they set out to observe several popular classmates to find out just what makes them popular. They record their observations in a shared notebook. Julie is the more shy member of the pair, but also an artist. Lydia is less afraid to try new things, but sometimes goes a little too far.
As they get to know the popular girls, they start spending les...more
As they get to know the popular girls, they start spending les...more
人気の論文：研究の社会的改善と総合改善のために中リディアゴールドブラットやジュリーグラハム-チャン
Ninki No Ronbun: Kenkyu No Shakai-Teki Kaizan To Sogo Kaizen No Tame Ni Naka Ridia Gorudoburatto Ya Juri Gurahamu-Chan
Junie and Lydia are best friends. Julia Graham-Chang is an artistic girl with two dads who loves to wear overalls. Lydia Goldblatt is a daring girl who is willing to try anything in their goal: to find out what makes girls popular. As they try everything in their power, from dyeing heir hair to getting "crushes" on boys, they soon...more
Ninki No Ronbun: Kenkyu No Shakai-Teki Kaizan To Sogo Kaizen No Tame Ni Naka Ridia Gorudoburatto Ya Juri Gurahamu-Chan
Junie and Lydia are best friends. Julia Graham-Chang is an artistic girl with two dads who loves to wear overalls. Lydia Goldblatt is a daring girl who is willing to try anything in their goal: to find out what makes girls popular. As they try everything in their power, from dyeing heir hair to getting "crushes" on boys, they soon...more
This was very clever. A great combination of two voices, drawings, and even bits of knitting "taped" to the pages of a notebook. Lydia (the brave experimenter) and Julie (the shyer observer and artist) keep a top-secret notebook of their "scientific" observations of the popular girls in their 5th grade class, so that they can achieve popularity themselves next year in middle school. Their various experiments involve class elections, school shows and camping trips, sleepovers, field hockey, tryin...more
Sep 27, 2010
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JULIE is a weird girl according to everyone else anyways.
Julie and lydia are the losers of the school.
They don’t talk to anyone else but eachother i think that thats kind of sad but thats just what i think.These two girls are a little weird but they both are very intelegent girls.
Lydia sings really good and she wants to be the lead of the play.
But some one else gets the main part in the play all the time and lydia ends up being something unimportant as usual .
But at least she gets a part..........more
Julie and lydia are the losers of the school.
They don’t talk to anyone else but eachother i think that thats kind of sad but thats just what i think.These two girls are a little weird but they both are very intelegent girls.
Lydia sings really good and she wants to be the lead of the play.
But some one else gets the main part in the play all the time and lydia ends up being something unimportant as usual .
But at least she gets a part..........more
The Popularity Papers was a charmingly cute read told in diary format by two fifth grade girls- Lydia and Julie.
While Lydia is the out-spoken one who craves to be the center star of everyone's lives (blame the theater geek in her), Julie would just be happy being on the sidelines being the quiet, sullen smart one. Both were fun to read about, even if I did sometimes find it hard to support their quenching desire to be popular. Though, they were fifth graders, so what could you expect? Also they...more
While Lydia is the out-spoken one who craves to be the center star of everyone's lives (blame the theater geek in her), Julie would just be happy being on the sidelines being the quiet, sullen smart one. Both were fun to read about, even if I did sometimes find it hard to support their quenching desire to be popular. Though, they were fifth graders, so what could you expect? Also they...more
Lydia and Julie observe the behaviors of the popular girls in their fifth grade class and hope they can learn their way into their crowd.
This is a refreshing option in this era of graphic epistolary humor novels for juveniles. Wimpy Kid brings hilarity/embarassment, Dear Dumb Diary is its female counterpart, the Dork Diaries mainly chronicles the petty behavior and drama of middle school girls, but the Popularity Papers is different. Perhaps because of the fact that it takes place in fifth grade...more
This is a refreshing option in this era of graphic epistolary humor novels for juveniles. Wimpy Kid brings hilarity/embarassment, Dear Dumb Diary is its female counterpart, the Dork Diaries mainly chronicles the petty behavior and drama of middle school girls, but the Popularity Papers is different. Perhaps because of the fact that it takes place in fifth grade...more
The Popularity Papers by Amy Igoatow was a wonderful comedic book. It was some what relate able in some situations. It was very original. I loved how the book was the 2two main characters point of view and what you are reading is there convocation in there hand righting and there drawings! I liked how they also treated the book like a diary. I think the book is for fit graders mostly because they talk about getting ready for junior high. But reading it at my age it is fun thinking I used to act...more
Totally engaging and laugh out loud funny. Yes it could be compared to Wimpy Kid, but there is more to this book than that! Lydia abd Julie decide to prepare themselves for the transition from elementary school to middle school (or junior high) by observing the "popular" kids--what they do, wear, etc. and trying them on for size. Julie is the illustrator of their little manual and both girls write comments and observation. As the school year progresses, they reach out into their respective "disc...more
Okay, I am SO not into this book. I don't like "notebook" books done in handwriting for the most part, and I've seen most of the material here in a thousand other books.
Thing is, that doesn't matter because I am not a 10 or 11 or 12 or 13 yr old girl. They will eat this up and ask for more. Don't bother handing it to boys, because this is girly beyond words and has ZERO boy appeal even if you are misguided enough to try to hand it to a boy.
And the 12 year old at my house? The one who reads 5-6 b...more
Thing is, that doesn't matter because I am not a 10 or 11 or 12 or 13 yr old girl. They will eat this up and ask for more. Don't bother handing it to boys, because this is girly beyond words and has ZERO boy appeal even if you are misguided enough to try to hand it to a boy.
And the 12 year old at my house? The one who reads 5-6 b...more
I would actually like to have a kid read this and tell me what they thought, because my reading it as an adult may have clouded my judgement. I really loved the illustrations and thought some of the characters were really good, but I often felt like I was reading an adult remembering what it was like to be a child, and not reading from a kid's perspective.
This is the story of Lydia and Julie and how they long to become popular. They accomplish this by creating a journal and a list of activities...more
This is the story of Lydia and Julie and how they long to become popular. They accomplish this by creating a journal and a list of activities...more
De'Azhane says:
Lydia and Julie, the main characters in The Popularity Papers, are trying to be popular and they spy on the popular kids. They ask Melody (Lydia’s sister) some questions and she says, “well, you have to dress cute.” The next day Lydia was wearing her mom’s jewelry and heels.
They are trying to get a cell phone so they try and run away and make their mom and dads try to call them but oh they don’t have a cell phone.
They finally left their house and their mom and dads and Papa Dad...more
Lydia and Julie, the main characters in The Popularity Papers, are trying to be popular and they spy on the popular kids. They ask Melody (Lydia’s sister) some questions and she says, “well, you have to dress cute.” The next day Lydia was wearing her mom’s jewelry and heels.
They are trying to get a cell phone so they try and run away and make their mom and dads try to call them but oh they don’t have a cell phone.
They finally left their house and their mom and dads and Papa Dad...more
My bias against this title would have made me pass right over it at B&N, but when an independent bookstore put it front and center I actually considered it, and glad I did. Lydia and Julia have one year before junior high and one year to figure out how to be popular. In the style of Moss' Amelia's Notebook series, this book is in a diary format with lots of drawings and notes. The two best friends, Lydia and Julie record their observations and perform experiments about what it takes to be po...more
Popularity Papers is about two girls named Julia and Lidia. All they want to do is to be "popular girls". So the 2 girls start to make a secretclub for themselves so they could spy on the popular girls. For example, one time they discovered that one of the popular girls knitted their own hats and gloves. The 2 girls tried, and I'm going to tell you one of the words I read at that part was OUCH! In the end thet discover that being popular doesn't really mean you have to wear fancy clothes and be...more
Probably more like a 4-4.5, but just wanted to convey how much I enjoyed this book. It's like the Diary of a Wimpy Kid format of a journal, but it doesn't feel like a knock-off. Great art, humorous, and a message that doesn't feel heavy-handed. I would definitely recommend this one to kids, mostly girls.
A wonderful book, in every little way. Hilarious (when Julie brings up the fact that she's incidentally drawn four toilets in their journal thus far, I was laughing out loud), sensitive, and having an wonderful spirit of diversity and tolerance that in no way makes itself the center of attention, but simply floats on the surface of everything, like pond algae...or something less disgusting. This is a good pick for reluctant readers (though some might have difficulty with Lydia's cursive handwrit...more
So, Daisy (my 7-year-old) picked this one off the shelf. I tend to wonder a bit when a title uses the word "popular" or "popularity" in them. There is just too much junk to fill our kids' minds already, so I read this one over since Daisy really wanted to read it. It was okay. There were moments that made me laugh, but it's because I am a 30-something person who has already gone through some of that angst-ridden, pre-teen stuff. Do I think it was age-appropriate? Not for my 2nd grader. Was it te...more
For Summer reading I decided to read “The Popularity Papers”. This book was very good and I enjoyed it very much I would give this book three and a half stars! I recommed this book is about two girls that are very great friends- In this adventure these to girls decide that being popular is more important than being who you really are. They then decide that they would observe the popular girls and after two months of observing they would make an attempt to walk like them talk like them and act li...more
Lydia Goldblatt and Julie Graham-Chang are best friends and desperately want to be popular. The share a journal of sorts, writing back and forth with their observations and popularity plans. The girls go through ups and downs, learning about themselves and their classmates. I like the diversity of their friends and family.
While I enjoyed the creative and realistic presentation, I do suspect that some students will have a hard time reading the cursive used in the book, simply because cursive ins...more
While I enjoyed the creative and realistic presentation, I do suspect that some students will have a hard time reading the cursive used in the book, simply because cursive ins...more
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