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Author
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
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.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
Hers legs are waxed, her lips are glossed, her gun is ready. FBI agent Gracie Hart is going undercover as one of the hopefuls to be the next Miss United States. But Gracie, whose idea of a fashion accessory is the set of handcuffs she slaps unto lawbreakers, doesn't have a beauty pageant bone in her body.
Author
Series
Publisher
Picture Window Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
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.
Author
Series
Jaine Austen mystery volume 13
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When she is hired to write lyrics for a contestant in the talent competition for the Miss Teen Queen America pageant, freelance writer Jaine Austen is plunged into a glittering nightmare of vicious stage moms, exacting judges and trash-talking teens after a catfight turns deadly.
Author
Series
Tita Rosie's kitchen mystery volume 2
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Death at a beauty pageant turns Tita Rosie's Kitchen upside down in the latest entry of this witty and humorous cozy mystery series by Mia P. Manansala, author of Arsenic and Adobo. Things are heating up for Lila Macapagal. Not in her love life, which she insists on keeping nonexistent despite the attention of two very eligible bachelors. Or her professional life, since she can't bring herself to open her new café after the unpleasantness that occurred...
7) Sugar on top
Author
Series
Sugar Georgia volume 2
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The last thing Glory Mann wants is to become chairman of the Miss Peach Pageant in Sugar, Georgia. Spending months hearing nothing but the clinking of pearls and judgment? No thank you! But when Glory is forced to take the rap for a scandal she didn't commit, the judge sentences her to head the committee. Even worse, her co-chairman is rugged, ripped...and barely knows she's alive.
Author
Series
Publisher
University of Texas Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In Being Miss America, Kate Shindle interweaves an engrossing, witty memoir of her year as Miss America 1998 with a fascinating and insightful history of the pageant. She explores what it means to take on the mantle of America's "ideal," especially considering the evolution of the American female identity since the pageant's inception. Shindle profiles winners and organization leaders and recounts important moments in the pageant's story, with a special...
Author
Series
Garden society mystery volume 2
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
"A beauty pageant for little girls-the Little Miss Begonia Pageant-has decided to hold their event in a Roanoke park. Camellia is called in to help deal with the botanical details, the cute contestants, and their catty mothers. She soon realizes that the drama onstage is nothing compared to the judges row. There's jealousy, betrayal, and a love triangle involving local newsman-and known lothario-Telly Stevens. And a mysterious saboteur is trying to...
11) Silk stalkings
Author
Series
Material witness mystery volume 3
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
The time has come for San Ladrón, California's annual Miss Tangorli beauty pageant, and Poly has agreed to use Material Girl's inventory of shimmery silks to create embellished gowns fit for a crown. But when millionaire Harvey Halliwell--the man who revived the city's citrus trade with his imported tangorli tree--is found dead days before the pageant contestants are announced, something sour takes over the town. --Publisher
Author
Series
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Nancy attempts to escape from her captors and get back to the Miss Pretty Face Beauty Pageant so that she can reveal the dark secret about Pretty Face Cosmetics and save the rest of the contestants from their machinations.
Author
Publisher
One Signal Publishers/Atria
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
For all of its pomp and kitsch, the Miss America pageant is indelibly written into the American story of the past century. From its origins as a summer's-end tourist draw, it blossomed into a televised extravaganza and was once considered the highest honor that a young woman could achieve. Argetsinger spotlights how the pageant survived decades of social and cultural change, collided with a women's liberation movement that sought to abolish it, and...
14) Beauty Queens
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Teen beauty queens. A "Lost"-like island. Mysteries and dangers. No access to emall. And the spirit of fierce, feral competition that lives underground in girls, a savage brutality that can only be revealed by a journey into the heart of non-exfoliated darkness. Oh, the horror, the horror! Only funnier. With evening gowns. And a body count.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Betty Jane Welch reluctantly enters the Miss Delaware contest to make her mother happy, only to surprisingly find herself the judges' choice. Just like that, she's catapulted into the big time, the Miss America Pageant in Atlantic City. Luckily, her pageant-approved escort for the week is the dashing but mercurial Griffin McAllister, and she falls for him hard. But when the spirited Betty unexpectedly wins the crown and sash, she finds she may lose...
16) Rebel McKenzie
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
Egmont USA
Pub. Date
2011
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
Series
Baby-sitters Club volume 15
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
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 Dawn's turn to shine. Mrs. Pike wants Dawn to help prepare Margo and Claire for the Little Miss Stoneybrook contest. So what if Margo's only talent is peeling a banana with her feet? Dawn's going to help her charges win that contest any way she can. The only trouble is...Kristy,...
20) Miss Juneteenth
Publisher
Vertical Entertainment
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A former beauty queen prepares her rebellious daughter for the Miss Juneteenth pageant.
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