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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?
About the Author
Gretchen McNeil is the author of the YA horror/suspense novels POSSESS, 3:59, RELIC, GET EVEN, GET DIRTY, and TEN (a YALSA Top Ten Quick Pick for Reluctant Young Adult Readers, a Romantic Times Top Pick, and a Booklist Top Ten Horror Fiction for Youth) all with Balzer Bray for HarperCollins. Gretchen's first YA contemporary I'M NOT YOUR MANIC PIXIE DREAM GIRL, also with Balzer Bray, hit shelves in 2016.Her horror-comedy novel #MURDERTRENDING for Disney/Freeform made the Barnes & Noble Best Books of 2018 list and was also a YALSA Top Ten Quick Pick for Reluctant Young Adult Readers as well as an ILA Young Adults' Choices for 2019 and a YALSA 2019 Teens' Top Ten nominee. The sequel #MURDERFUDNING will be released on August 6, 2019.Gretchen's novels have been published internationally in Chinese, Spanish, Turkish, French, Thai, and Czech. The film adaptation of TEN starring China Anne McClain (Descendants 2, Black Lightning) premiered on Lifetime on September 16, 2017, and the BBC/Netflix series "Get Even" adapted from the novels GET EVEN and GET DIRTY will premiere in 2020.Gretchen is repped by Ginger Clark of Curtis Brown, Ltd. Website: https://www.gretchenmcneil.comTwitter: https://www.twitter.com/GretchenMcNeilInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/gretchen_mcneilFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/AuthorGretchenMcNeil: http://www..com/GretchenMcNeil
