I'm Not Your Manic Pixie Dream Girl

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 Youve Been Gone.

Beatrice Maria Estrella Giovannini has life all figured out. Shes 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 its time to use The Formula for herself. Shell 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 isnt all its 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 shes 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 “manic pixie dream girl” ready to beat the new girl at her own game. A High School Social Experiment: Armed with The Formula—a mathematically guaranteed path to popularity—Bea sets out to re-engineer her social life, with results that are more chaotic than calculated. A Complicated Coming of Age Story: As Beas Trixie persona spirals out of control, she risks alienating her best friends, Spencer and Gabe, and discovers that the heart doesn’t 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.