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The Popularity Code
By (Author) Stephanie Faris
Simon & Schuster
Aladdin
1st June 2020
United States
Children
Fiction
FIC
Paperback
256
Width 130mm, Height 194mm, Spine 15mm
179g
Mean Girls meets The Clique in this relatable M!X novel that tackles the effects of online bullying.
Faith Taylor is popular by association, thanks to her BFFs, Adria and Janelle. When a new website called SlamBook targets her schools popular kids, Faith gets sucked in. And when she discovers her own page on the site, she finds herself obsessing over the comments people are posting about her. Some are good, some arenot so good. Faith becomes determined to match the negative comments to the people, and begins to retaliate by posting negative comments of her own.
Soon, Faith finds that people are talking about the comments shes leaving. Even though she does feel guilty, its just so easy to be mean behind the anonymity of her laptop. But when her comments go too far, she realizes she must figure out a way to make things right before its too late.
Stephanie Faris knew she wanted to be an author from a very young age. In fact, her mother often told her to stop reading so much and go outside and play with the other kids. After graduating from Middle Tennessee State University she somehow found herself working in information technology. But she never stopped writing. When she isnt crafting fiction, Stephanie is indulging her gadget geek side by writing for online technology sites. Her work is regularly featured on the small business blogs for Intuit and Go Payment and she is a featured columnist for SmallBizTechnology.com. She lives in Nashville with her husband.