beauty contests

In Scarletville, the only thing that matters in society is having red hair. Felicity St. John seems to have it all--a hot boyfriend, artistic talent, a good shot at winning the Miss Scarlet pageant, and good friends. It is all a sham--her hair is the product of a bottle. Her true hair color is her secret--and that secret is discovered. Felicity will go to any lengths to keep it, but in the process she may discover she has issue with Scarletville's prejudices after all.

After being involved in the brittle, superficial world of a beauty contest, a country girl appreciates even more the solid values of her Indiana farm life.

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.

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.

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.

A beauty contestant since she was three, Olivia, now thirteen, has begun feeling limited by her beauty but a shared journey with Danny, a boy struggling with his own appearance, show her she has choices and resources beyond her appearance.

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.

It's time for the annual Blueberry Festival, and Kylie Jean just knows she'd be the perfect Blueberry Queen.

Examines beauty pageants past and present, their contestants, and their possible future.