From acclaimed author Gretchen McNeil comes her first realistic contemporary romanceâperfect for fans of Kody Keplingerâs The Duff and Morgan Matsonâs 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, sheâs a shoo-in for a scholarship to M.I.T., and sheâs got a new boyfriend sheâs 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 Trixieâa quintessential manic pixie dream girlâin 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 âTrixieâ 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? A Hilarious Fake Identity: To win back her ex, math genius Beatrice reinvents herself as Trixie, a quirky âmanic pixie dream girlâ ready to beat the new girl at her own game.A High School Social Experiment: Armed with The Formulaâa mathematically guaranteed path to popularityâBea sets out to re-engineer her social life, with results that are more chaotic than calculated.A Complicated Coming of Age Story: As Bea's Trixie persona spirals out of control, she risks alienating her best friends, Spencer and Gabe, and discovers that the heart doesnât always follow mathematical rules.A Friends to Lovers Romance: In this smart and witty YA romantic comedy, Bea must figure out if winning back her ex is worth losing her friends... and a chance at a love that was there all along.
I'm Not Your Manic Pixie Dream Girl - Gretchen McNeil
From acclaimed author Gretchen McNeil comes her first realistic contemporary romanceâperfect for fans of Kody Keplingerâs The Duff and Morgan Matsonâs 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, sheâs a shoo-in for a scholarship to M.I.T., and sheâs got a new boyfriend sheâs 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 Trixieâa quintessential manic pixie dream girlâin 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 âTrixieâ 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? A Hilarious Fake Identity: To win back her ex, math genius Beatrice reinvents herself as Trixie, a quirky âmanic pixie dream girlâ ready to beat the new girl at her own game.A High School Social Experiment: Armed with The Formulaâa mathematically guaranteed path to popularityâBea sets out to re-engineer her social life, with results that are more chaotic than calculated.A Complicated Coming of Age Story: As Bea's Trixie persona spirals out of control, she risks alienating her best friends, Spencer and Gabe, and discovers that the heart doesnât always follow mathematical rules.A Friends to Lovers Romance: In this smart and witty YA romantic comedy, Bea must figure out if winning back her ex is worth losing her friends... and a chance at a love that was there all along.