Search Results: Returned 9 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 9
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[2023]., Pre-adolescent, Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Call No: REALISTIC F VIT Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Desperate for the prize money to escape her mother's abusive boyfriend, twelve-year-old Fud enters a beauty pageant, but her eerie connection to nearby coyotes helps her see who she is meant to be, and who she can truly save.
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[2018], Pre-adolescent, Charlesbridge Call No: HISTORICAL F CHA Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: 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footsteps of the first black Miss America, Vanessa Williams; but with a dysfunctional family (mother in jail, father withdrawn, drunken grandfather, gay cousin) the odds are against her--until a new teacher at school organizes a beauty pageant and encourages Vanessa to enter.
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Ã2018, Pre-adolescent, Charlesbridge Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st pbk. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: 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 African American Miss America, Vanessa Williams; but the odds are against her until a new teacher at school organizes a beauty pageant and encourages Vanessa to enter.
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[2020]., HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Call No: FANTASY F MEJ Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "There hasn't been a winner of the Miss Meteor beauty pageant who looks like Lita Perez or Chicky Quintanilla in all its history. But that's not the only reason Lita wants to enter the contest, or her ex-best friend Chicky wants to help her. The road to becoming Miss Meteor isn't about being perfect; it's about sharing who you are with the world--and loving the parts of yourself no one else understands. So to pull off the unlikeliest underdog story in pageant history, Lita and Chicky are going to have to forget the past and imagine a future where girls like them are more than enough--they are everything"--From the publisher's web site.
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2016., Juvenile, Candlewick Press Call No: Blue Fiction DI CAMILLO Edition: First edition. Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: Hoping that if she wins a local beauty pageant her father will come home, Raymie practices twirling a baton and performing good deeds as she is drawn into an unlikely friendship with a drama queen and a saboteur.
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2016., Juvenile, Candlewick Press Call No: FIC DIC Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Hoping that if she wins a local beauty pageant her father will come home, Raymie practices twirling a baton and performing good deeds as she is drawn into an unlikely friendship with a drama queen and a saboteur.
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2016, Juvenile, Candlewick Press Call No: FIC DICAMILLO Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Hoping that if she wins a local beauty pageant her father will come home, Raymie practices twirling a baton and performing good deeds as she is drawn into an unlikely friendship with a drama queen and a saboteur.
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[2017], Primary, Atheneum Books for Young Readers Call No: Easy CLANTON Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Rot, a mutant potato, enters a "Cutest in the World" contest but worries when he sees his competition.
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[2019]., Adolescent, Henry Holt and Company Call No: Suspense FIC BOO Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: *Student Pick* Told in separate voices, Jory, whose face is partly paralyzed, and his sister Liv, a former reality television performer and child beauty pageant contestant, join forces to search for their missing parents.
