Manic pixie dream girls: guys want to date them and girls want to be them; they're goofy, they're cute --- and they're completely unrealistic. But what if there was a formula that could turn any average girl (or guy) into the most popular person at school practically over night? Senior Bea Giovannini has found that formula and she and her friends are racing their way to the top. But being a manic pixie dream girl isn't quite the dream she imagined and it's causing damages to her real friendships. Can Bea reverse the formula before she changes her life forever? Read below to learn more about Bea before reading I'M NOT YOUR MANIC PIXIE DREAM GIRL.
Meet Bea!
After three years of being seen as a nerdy nobody, Bea Giovannini begins her senior year of high school with low expectations...until she develops a mathematical formula she is sure will improve life for her and her best friends Spencer and Gabe.
In "Layman's terms," Bea's original formula translates to:
- Find the niche.
- Play the role.
- Fill the void.
Here are more facts about Bea:
- Her full name is Beatrice Maria Estrella Giovannini.
- At school she is known as Math Girl.
- Being interrupted is her #1 pet peeve.
- She has not seen a scripted TV show in 10 years.
- She hates the mall.
About the Book
From acclaimed author Gretchen McNeil comes her first realistic contemporary romance --- perfect for fans of Kody Keplinger’s THE DUFF and Morgan Matson’s SINCE YOU'VE BEEN GONE.
Beatrice Maria Estrella Giovannini has life all figured out. She's starting senior year at the top of her class, she’s a shoo-in for a scholarship to M.I.T., and she’s got a new boyfriend she’s crazy about. The only problem: All through high school Bea and her best friends Spencer and Gabe have been the targets of horrific bullying.
So Bea uses her math skills to come up with The Formula, a 100% mathematically guaranteed path to social happiness in high school. Now Gabe is on his way to becoming Student Body President, and Spencer is finally getting his art noticed. But when her boyfriend Jesse dumps her for Toile, the quirky new girl at school, Bea realizes it's time to use The Formula for herself. She'll be reinvented as the eccentric and lovable Trixie --- a quintessential manic pixie dream girl --- in order to win Jesse back and beat new-girl Toile at her own game.
Unfortunately, being a manic pixie dream girl isn't all it's cracked up to be, and “Trixie” is causing unexpected consequences for her friends. As The Formula begins to break down, can Bea find a way to reclaim her true identity and fix everything she's messed up? Or will the casualties of her manic pixie experiment go far deeper than she could possibly imagine.
Gretchen McNeil is an opera singer, a writer, and a clown. She is also the author of Get Even as well as Ten, which was a 2013 YALSA Top Ten Quick Pick for Reluctant Young Adult Readers, a Romantic Times Top Pick, and an ALA Booklist Top Ten Horror Fiction for Youth and was nominated for Best Young Adult Contemporary Novel of 2012 by Romantic Times. Gretchen blogs with the Enchanted Inkpot and is a founding member of the vlog group the YARebels.
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