Anatomy of a Misfit/ Andrea Portes/ 328 pages/ Big Library Read

Anika is the third most popular girl in school and must work hard to maintain that position, especially when the number one most popular girl, Becky, insists on calling her immigrant. Does it really matter that Anika's father is from Romania?  After all he spends half his time teaching at Princeton.  Here in Nebraska, Becky tries to stir up trouble where she can and happy to use Anika's ethnicity.  As the school year begins, enter Logan, on a Vespa, looking not at all nerdy anymore.  And so begins the cat and mouse chase as Logan and Anika try to outwit Becky.  Along the way Anika learns some disturbing things about Logan and his family life.  What is Anika to do when Jared, number one popular boy expresses an interest in her?  The book held my interest through out.  It was a good  look into the high school politics of popularity.   I did think the ending just perpetuated the 'mean girl' attitude rather than defeating it.