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This is a big week for Maya Van Wagenen. Her very first book Popular, her 8th grade diary, hit shelves across the country. She’s in New York to appear on The Today Show, and does a million interviews that accompany the book’s publication while she says she is worried about keeping up with the lessons she is missing back at her high school in Georgia.

As a middle schooler in a Texas town,  Maya once considered herself as an outsider. “I always struggled with making friends and finding confidence,” she says. “I felt bulled(欺负)and alone and it was really hard for me.” She said it was Betty Cornell’s Teen-Age Popularity Guide, a 1950s how-to book bought by her dad that greatly inspired her. She decided to follow the advice—devoting each month of her 8th grade year to different chapters like “Neat-looking” and “Be a Hostess”—and see if she could, in fact, become popular. Everyday, she’d taken notes on how people responded to her secret effort(nobody knew she was conducting this social experiment) and then she’d write detailed stories about her experience over the weekend.

After she finished the project, she sent the diary to her family. Her aunt passed it to a writer friend who in turn forwarded it to his agent. The agent wanted to sign Maya immediately. It was just the beginning: Penguin was the first publisher to bite and shortly after, Dreamworks got the movie right.

And while she’s riding the high of Popular for the time being, she has something else on her mind: her next book. Besides all that homework she has to do when she gets home, she is also writing a novel, for she has a two-book deal from Penguin.

“People always ask me, ’Why don’t you just home-school so you have time to work?’” she says. “But it’s fun in school, and I want to be a young adult writer! This is my chance to experience high school, so it’s the most important.”

1.Before she read Betty Cornell’s book, Maya felt that her school life was       .

A. amazing

B. inspiring

C. difficult

D. simple

2.What is the book Teen-4ge Popularity Guide mainly about?

A. Advice for teenagers to be well-received.

B. Advice for teenagers to take notes.

C. Ways for teenagers to conduct experiments.

D. Ways for teenagers to write stories.

3.Which of the following first published Maya’s book Popular?

A. The Today Show.

B. Penguin.

C. Her aunt.

D. Dreamworks.

4.What can we infer from Maya’s words in the last paragraph?

A. Her study at high school is necessary and important.

B. More chances are available to home-schooled writers.

C. Many adult writers will come to visit her school.

D. Young writers should have teaching experience.

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