How Not to Be Popular by Jennifer Ziegler

Sugar Magnolia Dempsey is tired of a lifetime of moving from place to place with her hippie parents.  The last move was the hardest ever--not only moving away from her best friend, but also from her first boyfriend.  She decides to avoid any further heartache by not making any friends in her new school so it won't hurt so much when she moves again.  Readers are treated to some very funny incidents as she makes crazy choices in order to keep people away.  It doesn't exactly turn out the way she plans...