How to Be Popular Without Losing Your Mind (Genny in a Bottle) [Paperback]

Kristen Kemp (Author)

Book Description

Age Level: 9 and up | Series: Genny in a Bottle

Genny is no ordinary genie. She¹s been thirteen years old for over a thousand years, helping other thirteen-year-olds with their problems. But dealing with a millennium of crushes, sibling rivalries, and bad hair days hasn¹t always been easy! Take the case of Nadia, for instance. She¹s new in town and totally unpopular with everybody ­ including the boy of her dreams. It should be a simple problem for Genny to solveŠ but what happens when the boy of Nadia¹s dreams is also the boy of Genny¹s dreams?

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 9 and up
  
• Paperback: 154 pages
• Publisher: Apple (December 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0439211786
• ISBN-13: 978-0439211789
• Product Dimensions: 7.3 x 5.3 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,823,158 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

I've been writing since I was in the fifth grade. I used to make up stories about ghost dogs and time machines. Now I write more serious fare for women, like my new co-authored book, Redemption. I also write books for teenagers such as Breakfast at Bloomingdale's and The Dating Diaries. When I'm not writing, I'm working on my websites: healingsister.org, baristakids.com and kristenkemp.com. I also love to take hip hop classes even though I dance like Austin Powers. Thanks for stopping by my author page.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars amazing book, September 28, 2004

A Kid's Review

This review is from: How to Be Popular Without Losing Your Mind (Genny in a Bottle) (Paperback)

I'm in college and even I enjoy this book so much, the way it's written descriptively makes it so hard to put down, and I like reading it over and over. All the things Nadia went through to become popular was like a reading adventure, and I think it's neat how Genny gave her her own wardrobe and spoke of such interesting things. But that's just the tip of the iceberg, definitely check out this book

5.0 out of 5 stars this book is too cool, December 4, 2005

A Kid's Review

This review is from: How to Be Popular Without Losing Your Mind (Genny in a Bottle) (Paperback)

This girl named nadia from new york is treated differently by her midwestern classmates who are too different from her. So when she gets a genie of her own and wants to be popular she gets her clothes custom made and starts wearing colourful clothes and barrettes as opposed to wearing black and joins the school paper and makes friends with the popular girls. But then she has to choose between the geeks and the popular ones and circumstances make it hard. Finally nadia decides who she likes when she learns the hard way that some of them tried to set her up and since then she started dressing like herself again though with much more colour and all the while nadia and her genie enjoyed chats, girl talk, pizza and dancing to madonna music. Nice read

5.0 out of 5 stars Just when you think popularity is everything........, January 24, 2004

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This review is from: How to Be Popular Without Losing Your Mind (Genny in a Bottle) (Paperback)

This book can really teach you a thing or too about popularity. Nadia just moved to a new town. Different from her old New York city life, she is shunned away from popularity from her "strange styles". Just when she feels she`s had enough, she meets Genny who happens to be a genie. Thinking she`s now going to join the popularity with her new genie, she has a more confident attitude. But then she learns popularity isn`t everything. She now has to choose between her nerdy, but true cousin Frieda, and the popular girls......and there`s a cute boy between everything!!