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Author
Series
Three rancheros volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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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.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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When a plane crash strands thirteen teen beauty contestants on a mysterious island, they struggle to survive, to get along with one another, to combat the island's other diabolical occupants, and to learn their dance numbers in case they are rescued in time for the competition.
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Middle-schooler Theora Theremin and her brother Verbert find themselves whisked from the shores of hometown Lake Philodendron to an intergalactic beauty contest on Neptune.
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
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.
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
©2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
After her beloved father's death in 1977, eleven-year-old tomboy Chip tries to fit with her family of beauty queens, making unlikely new friends at Miss Vernie's unusual charm school in Mt. Airy, North Carolina.
Author
Publisher
Egmont USA
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
After being ousted from yet another elite boarding school, seventeen-year-old Jane returns to her Alabama hometown, where her grandmother persuades her to enter the Magnolia Maid pageant.
Author
Publisher
Point
Pub. Date
©2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Sick of living in the shadow of her seven-year-old pageant queen sister who is praised for her looks, Lexi resolves to get a makeover when she determines her personality just isn't enough to garner the attentions of boys.
Author
Publisher
Disney Hyperion
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When feisty twelve-year-old Rebel McKenzie, an aspiring paleontologist, goes to spend the summer taking care of her older sister's seven-year-old son at the mobile home park in Frog Level, Virginia, she never expects to enter a beauty pageant or meet a hand model.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Twin daughters of interracial parents, eleven-year-olds Keira and Minna have very different skin tones and personalities, but it is not until their African American grandmother enters them in the Miss Black Pearl Pre-Teen competition in North Carolina that red-haired and pale-skinned Minna realizes what life in their small town in the Pacific Northwest has been like for her more outgoing, darker-skinned sister.
10) Crowned
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Presley loves the pageant world. She knows how to work the crowd and looks gorgeous in an evening gown. But really, she needs the pageant world -- for its scholarships and opportunities. The only thing standing in her way? Her archrival, Megan, who was practically born wearing a crown and sash. Megan may be the nastiest girl on the circuit, but she has one thing that Presley doesn't: connections. And she won't hesitate to use them. What happens when...
11) Like Vanessa
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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 the odds are against her until a new teacher at school organizes a beauty pageant and encourages Vanessa to enter.
12) Bring it!
Author
Series
Shake it up volume 2
Publisher
Disney Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
CeCe Jones and Rocky Blue, best friends, neighbors, and background dancers for the hit television show, "Shake It Up, Chicago," compete in a dance marathon for charity and work with the competitors at the Little Cutie Queen beauty pageant.
13) Dumplin'
Author
Series
Dumplin' volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Willowdean wants to prove to everyone in her small Texas town that she is more than just a fat girl, so, while grappling with her feelings for a co-worker who is clearly attracted to her, Will and some other misfits prepare to compete in the beauty pageant her mother runs.
Dubbed "Dumplin'" by her former beauty queen mom, Willowdean has always been at home in her own skin. Her thoughts on having the ultimate bikini body? Put a bikini...
Author
Series
Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 15
Publisher
Scholastic Incorporated
Pub. Date
[2021]
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.
America's favorite series returns with a new look and a Netflix tv show. Dawn's a little jealous when there's a formal ceremony to welcome Jessi and Mallory into the Baby-sitters Club. Don't people know that Dawn's a special baby-sitter too? Then it's...
15) Time to roll
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"In the eagerly anticipated sequel to Jamie Sumner’s acclaimed and beloved middle grade novel Roll with It, Ellie finds her own way to shine. Ellie is so not the pageant type. They’re Coralee’s thing, and Ellie is happy to let her talented friend shine in the spotlight. But what’s she supposed to do when Coralee asks her to enter a beauty pageant, and their other best friend, Bert, volunteers to be their manager? Then again, how else is she...
Author
Series
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Description
Gabby's summer vacation isn't shaping up to be that great. Her dad was just deployed overseas, and Gabby is staying at her grandmother's house with her mom and baby sister until he returns. The one bright spot is that Gaby plans to sign up for the local softball league--her greatest love and a passion she shares with her Dad who was a pitcher in college. But when Gabby goes to sign up for the summer league, she discovers that there wasn't enough interest...
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