“Jell-O monkeys!” she squealed, and wiggled her fingers in front of her mouth.

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I was on an upbeat, fun and funny kick over the summer (Which was broken a bit by the book that follows this), and this seemed like the perfect way to keep it up. It’s about a girl named Beatrice who likes math and is a bit of a control freak. She isn’t popular and everyone knows her as Math Girl.

Beatrice thinks the new school year will be different for her and her friends. For instance, she finally has a boyfriend. Jesse ends up dropping her once he meets the new girl in school. Toile is a typical manic pixie dream girl. She dresses weird and says weird, childish things. The popular kids are inexplicably drawn to her.

Beatrice comes up with The Formula to make her friends popular. For her part, she becomes the ultimate manic pixie dream girl to beat Toile and win back Jesse.

I really wanted to like this book, but it was kind of just okay for me.

You can read my full review here.