



While cleaning Jason’s grandmother’s attic, Steph finds a book titled How to be Popular and decides that using the book’s advice will help her achieve a position at the top of the social pyramid. The three teens have been ostracized by their peers because of a certain incident Steph had in 5th grade with extremely popular Lauren Moffat. Steph Landry is an average high school student in Indiana with best friends Jason and Bex. Who needs red dwarves when you're invited to the hottest parties in town?īut don't forget the most important thing about popularity! She's got a secret weapon: an old book called-what else?- How to Be Popular.Īll Steph has to do is follow the instructions in The Book, and soon she'll be partying with the It Crowd (including school quarterback Mark Finley) instead of sitting on The Hill Saturday nights, stargazing with her nerdy best pal Becca, and even nerdier Jason (now kind of hot, but still), whose passion for astronomy Steph once shared. That's why this year, she has a plan to get in with the It Crowd in no time flat. Steph's been the least popular girl in her class since a certain cherry Super Big Gulp catastrophe five years earlier. Everyone wants to be popular-or at least, Stephanie Landry does.
