Scrappy Little Nobody

A collection of humorous autobiographical essays by the Academy Award-nominated actress and star of and . Even before she made a name for herself on the silver screen starring in films like , , , and , Anna Kendrick was unusually small, weird, and -10 percent defiant.- At the ripe age of thirteen, she A collection of humorous autobiographical essays by the Academy Award-nominated actress and star of and . Even before she made a name for herself on the silver screen starring in films like , , , and , Anna Kendrick was unusually small, weird, and -10 percent defiant.- At the ripe age of thirteen, she had already resolved to -keep the crazy inside my head where it belonged.

Forever. But here-s the thing about crazy: It. Wants.

Out.- In , she invites readers inside her brain, sharing extraordinary and charmingly ordinary stories with candor and winningly wry observations. With her razor-sharp wit, Anna recounts the absurdities she-s experienced on her way to and from the heart of pop culture as only she can-from her unusual path to the performing arts (Vanilla Ice and baggy neon pants may have played a role) to her double life as a middle-school student who also starred on Broadway to her initial -dating experiments- (including only liking boys who didn-t like her back) to reviewing a binder full of butt doubles to her struggle to live like an adult woman instead of a perpetual -man-child.- Enter Anna-s world and follow her rise from -scrappy little nobody- to somebody who dazzles on the stage, the screen, and now the page-with an electric, singular voice, at once familiar and surprising, sharp and sweet, funny and serious (well, not that serious).