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Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Staying at her grandmother's house while her father is deployed overseas, Gabby is disappointed when the girl's softball season is cancelled, a situation that forces her to choose between fighting to get on the boys' team and competing in a beauty pageant.
Author
Series
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.
3) Time to roll
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
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
Pub. Date
c2012
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.
6) Like Vanessa
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
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footsteps of the first black Miss America, Vanessa Williams; but with a dysfunctional family (mother in jail, father withdrawn, drunken grandfather, gay cousin) the odds are against her--until a new teacher at school organizes a beauty pageant and encourages Vanessa to enter.
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