beauty contests

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.

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.

Sixteen-year-old Alice MacLeod's life as an outcast begins to change when she experiments with being friends with different sorts of people, tries drinking alcohol and eating meat, and competes in the Miss Smithers beauty pageant.

Kylie Jean Carter is hoping to become Blueberry Queen at the annual Blueberry Festival.

Upon discovering a secret about a cosmetics corporation's product, Nancy Drew is taken hostage and tries to find a way to free herself so that she can reveal the secret and save any girls who may come into contact with the product.

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.

Nancy enters a beauty pageant undercover to investigate a previous winner's claim that she was framed for shoplifting and dethroned unjustly.

Getting a part in the sixth-grade play doesn't keep Jill from being jealous of the attention her younger sister gets from her repeated participation in beauty pageants.

Authors present differing opinions on whether beauty pageants show that women still have not achieved equality and whether beauty pageants perpetuate myths about female beauty.

As the younger and plainer sister of a frequent beauty contest winner, fourteen-year-old Scottie-Ann has always had mixed feelings about such competitions especially when she finds herself a reluctant contestant in the Marsh Mid Princess Pageant.