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21) Time to roll
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
When thirteen-year-old Ellie reluctantly agrees to enter a beauty pageant with her best friend Coralee, the director seems determined to feature Ellie and her wheelchair, so she must find a way to participate on her own terms, all while saving her friendship and forming a better relationship with her divorced dad.
Author
Series
Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 15
Language
English
Description
Each member of the Baby-sitters Club sponsors a different girl in the Little Miss Stoneybrook competition, as Dawn also tries to cope with the break-up of her family after her parents are divorced.
Author
Series
Miss Julia series volume 6
Language
English
Description
Imagine Aunt Bee from The Andy Griffith Show with a lot more backbone and confidence," wrote Publishers Weekly about Miss Julia, Ann Ross's endearing Dixie doyenne of decorum. In her latest romp, Miss Julia-now Mrs. Sam Murdoch-returns from her whirlwind elopement, only to find herself roped into Hazel Marie's scheme to raise money by throwing a beauty pageant. Though it all seems a tad distasteful, it's nothing compared to the revelation that Pigeon...
25) Misbehaviour
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A group of women conspire to disrupt the Miss World beauty pageant in London.
27) Like Vanessa
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Formats
Description
It is 1983 and Vanessa Martin, a thirteen-year-old African American girl in Newark's public housing, dreams of following in the footsteps of the first black Miss America, Vanessa Williams; but with a dysfunctional family (mother in jail, father withdrawn, drunken grandfather, gay cousin) the odds are against her--until a new teacher at school organizes a beauty pageant and encourages Vanessa to enter.
28) Paige the pony
Author
Series
Fairy animals of Misty Wood volume 10
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First American edition.
Language
English
Description
"Paige the Pony can't wait for the Midsummer Pony Gala--she wants to enter the Prettiest Pony Competition. She just needs to untangle her mane, smooth her coat, and brush out her tail. But when Paige's friends in Misty Wood ask for her help, will she be able to keep herself neat and tidy?" - Page 4 of cover.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First One Signal Publishers/Atria Books hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
An editor for The Washington Post's Style section offers a look back on the Miss America pageant as it approaches its 100th anniversary, spotlighting how it has survived decades of social and cultural change and redefined itself alongside evolving ideas of feminism.
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
From the author of The Dressmaker's Dowry. In the 1940s young women, winners of beauty contests and dance competitions, flocked to Hollywood with stars in their eyes. Violet Harcourt seems to have disappeared there without a trace. Sixty years later, a young woman sets out to discover what happened to Violet on that long ago summer.
31) Blueberry queen
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
It's time for the Blueberry Festival, and everyone in town is busy getting ready. Kylie Jean Carter's momma is baking pies, her pa is picking berries, and Kylie is thinking about becoming the Blueberry Queen.
33) Coyote queen
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Twelve-year-old Fud feels trapped. She lives a precarious life in a cramped trailer with her mom and her mom's alcoholic ex-boxer boyfriend, Larry. Fud can see it's only a matter of time until Larry explodes again, even if her mom keeps on making excuses for his behavior. If only Fud could find a way to be as free as the coyotes roaming the Wyoming countryside: strong, smart, independent, and always willing to protect their own. When Larry comes...
34) Tiara Saurus Rex
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Tina Saurus-Rex is a fierce young competitor. She always has to win the Miss Dinosaur pageant. Will Patty Saurus, Stef O'Saurus, Teri Dactyl, and Sarah Topps be brave enough to challenge her?"--
38) Bone appetit
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Retreating to a weekend spa and cooking school after a romantic disappointment, private investigator Sarah Booth Delaney enjoys watching a spiteful competition for the spa's next spokesperson, until a top contender is poisoned and the leading suspect hires Sarah to clear her name.
Author
Series
Clique summer collection volume 5
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Back in Orlando for the summer, twelve-year-old Claire has difficulty connecting with her former best friends, but decides to prove her loyalty by entering Kissimmee's Miss Kiss beauty pageant.
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