Mean Girls. Poster of the 2004 movie and cover of the 2002 book, Queen Bees and Wannabes
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Queen Bees and Wannabes
Rosalind Wiseman, 2002
movie vs book
Mark Waters, 2004

Sixteen-year-old homeschooled Cady Heron and her zoologist parents, Betsy and Chip Heron, return to the United States after a twelve-year research trip in Africa, settling in Evanston, Illinois. Cady becomes attracted to Regina’s ex-boyfriend, Aaron Samuels, and purposely fails math, a subject she is gifted at, in order to have an excuse to talk to him.