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Three rancheros volume 1
Pub. Date
2016.
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
New Line Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
The Sarah Rose Princess America Pageant is a beauty contest to die for. And that's exactly what the contestants in Mount Rose, Minnesota are doing. Ever since the vivacious but vicious former beauty queen, Gladys, has been pushing her charm-challenged daughter, Rebecca, to win at all costs, the competition has been dropping like flies.
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English
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"The year is 1969. Dick Nixon was just sworn in as the thirty-seventh President of the United States. Neil Armstrong just took one small step for man and one giant leap for mankind. And notable Palm Springs socialite Maxine Simmons just found out that her husband is leaving her for his twenty-two-year-old secretary. After a public meltdown at Thanksgiving, Maxine finds herself not only divorced but exiled to Scottsdale, Arizona. However, these desert...
4) Dumplin'
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Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Self-proclaimed fat girl Willowdean Dickson (dubbed "Dumplin'" by her former beauty queen mom) has always been at home in her own skin. Her thoughts on having the ultimate bikini body? Put a bikini on your body. With her all-American beauty best friend, Ellen, by her side, things have always worked... until Will takes a job at Harpy's, the local fast-food joint. There she meets Private School Bo, a hot former jock. Will isn't surprised to find herself...
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Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Normally Melanie Cooper and Angie DeLaura wouldn't be caught dead at a beauty pageant, but when Mel's mom asks them to provide cupcakes for the seventy-fifth annual Sweet Tiara contest as a favor for her best friend, they can't say no. Plus between cooking up a daily display for the three-day event and sponsoring a cupcake creation challenge for the participants, Fairy Tale Cupcakes will get great publicity. But the world of pageants is even hotter...
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English
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In Morality for Beautiful Girls, Precious Ramotswe, founder and owner of the only detective agency for the concerns of both ladies and others, investigates the alleged poisoning of the brother of an important "Government Man," and the moral character of the four finalists of the Miss Beauty and Integrity Contest, the winner of which will almost certainly be a contestant for the title of Miss Botswana. Yet her business is having money problems, and...
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Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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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
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Looking for Miss America is a fast-paced narrative history of the Miss America pageant from its start as a shocking east coast bathing-beauty revue in 1921 to its recent rebirth as a swimsuit-free "scholarship competition." It introduces the dreamers and dissidents, hustlers and heroines who won; the celebrities, including Norman Rockwell, Joan Crawford, and Rod McKuen, who judged; and the masterminds behind it, like director Lenora Slaughter, who...
Author
Series
Nancy Drew: girl detective volume 30
Nancy Drew girl detective volume 30
Perfect mystery trilogy volume 1
Nancy Drew girl detective volume 30
Perfect mystery trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Nancy enters a beauty pageant undercover to investigate a previous winner's claim that she was framed for shoplifting and dethroned unjustly.
11) Beauty queens
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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.
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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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The last thing sixteen-year-old Maisie Martin thought she'd be doing over vacation is entering a beauty pageant. Not when she's spent most of her life hiding her body from everyone. Not when her Dad is AWOL and her gorgeous older sister has returned to rock Maisie's already shaky confidence. And especially not when her best friend starts flirting with the boy she's always loved. But Maisie's got something to prove. As she writes down all the ways...
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English
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"During the Midsummer Night's Festival, Allie decides to take her bichonpoo, Mal, home to spare her furry little ears from the sounds of fireworks. But on her way back, Allie spots a body in the lake. Just minutes ago, Winona Higer was crowning the event's Queen--could the competition have really been that deadly? While she ponders the mystery the next morning, Allie prepares her favorite dark chocolate cherry fudge recipe. But she's soon recruited...
Publisher
Maya Weinberg
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Angelina, the first Druze woman to attempt significant steps in the Israeli fashion world, finds herself in the middle of a complicated conflict in which the tradition and values of her society clash with her brave efforts to choose her own way in life. Duah Fares, a young woman from the Druze village of Sagur in the Galilee, was one of the 12 finalists in the beauty pageant for Israeli-Arab women - 'Lady Kul el-Arab.' While preparing for the pageant,...
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Series
Baby-sitters Club. Original series 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,...
Author
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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...
Author
Series
Nancy Drew: girl detective volume 32
Perfect mystery trilogy volume 3
Nancy Drew girl detective volume 32
Perfect mystery trilogy volume 3
Nancy Drew girl detective volume 32
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2008.
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
Series
Nancy Drew: girl detective volume 31
Perfect mystery trilogy volume 2
Nancy Drew girl detective volume 31
Perfect mystery trilogy volume 2
Nancy Drew girl detective volume 31
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
When Nancy and her friends travel to New York so that Nancy can participate in the next round of the Miss Pretty Face Beauty Pageant, they investigate shady dealings involving the cosmetics company that is sponsoring the contest.
20) Rebel McKenzie
Author
Publisher
Disney Hyperion
Pub. Date
2012.
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.
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