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Geek Girl by Holly Smale
Audio narrated by Katey Sobey
3*

Cute YA novel about a 15yo girl, Harriet Manners, who definitely fits the role of a geek. She is exceptionally smart and habitually shares her font of trivial knowledge with the world. She has no sense of fashion nor cares about it. She struggles socially and is often bullied by the mean girls in her school.

She accompanies her best friend, Nat, to the local mall where there are supposed to be scouts from a modeling agency present. Nat is hoping to be discovered. Unfortunately, it is Harriet who catches their attention. This creates some tension between the two girls. Harriet's not interested until she reaches her limit on being treated poorly and comes to the conclusion that maybe becoming a model would be a way to change her and make her fit in better with others.

As she goes off on her first modeling adventure with her father in tow, she develops a friendship with a popular male model and learns from the snarky female models that "high school" is everywhere. She can't escape the bullying. She also learns that like the ugly duckling who turns into a swan, she needs to embrace herself rather than trying to change for others.