Dumped by Popular Demand (Social Experiments of Dorie Dilts Series #1) Book

Dorie Dilts is about to move from California to New Jersey, and instead of seeing this as the worst thing to happen to her in her 13 years, Dorie sees this as a great opportunity—an opportunity to reinvent herself as one of the popular crowd, that is. When she arrives at her new school, she immediately sets out to determine who is the most popular and how they got that way. She quickly deduces it's a group of girls whom she dubs the Holly Trinity. And the one thing that connects them is their shared experience of having gone out with and been dumped by the arrogant Grant Braddish. One she determines this, Dorie is quickly on her way with a plan to win the heart of, and then get dumped by, Grant.

Dorie soon discovers Grant isn't as arrogant as some would think and maybe she would rather be with him than with the popular girls.

School Library Journal

Gr 5-8- Dorie, 12, was a loner in California. Now she has moved to New Jersey, and she yearns to be popular in her new school. She is an intelligent, science-loving student who makes use of the scientific method to achieve her goal. She analyzes the popular group and studies its members to determine the common variable they share. Along the way she meets Dixie, who is not popular but doesn't care. He and Dorie become fast friends, but she is still determined to be part of the group she has nicknamed the Holly Trinity. She eventually figures out that the commonality among the girls is that they have all been dumped by Grant and sets out to follow suit, but discovers that being part of the in group is not all she thought it would be. The author cleverly uses scientific principles in a humorous fashion to make this book appeal even to students for whom science is their least favorite subject. A lighthearted romance that even reluctant readers will enjoy.-Sheilah Kosco, Bastrop Public Library, TX