beauty, personal

Peggoty the pig feels ugly when the other animals tell her she needs fur, a mane, or feathers, but then she sees the farmer's baby and learns that there is also beauty in being hairless.

When eighteen-year-old Becky Randle's mother dies, she is whisked away from a trailer park to New York City, where fashion designer Tom Kelly offers to transform her into a glamorous Rebecca, a girl fit for a prince--but soon she begins to fear that she will lose touch with her real self.

The editors of "CosmoGirl!" magazine answers dozens of reader questions about beauty, offering teenage girls advice on hair, makeup, skin, teeth, and nails.

Twenty-five-year-old Penelope's life would be near-perfect had she not been cursed with the face of a pig, and so while her mother struggles to find a blue-blooded bachelor to break the curse and a tabloid reporter plots to expose her secret, Penelope gets fed up and leaves home, in disguise, to find her own happiness.

Heiress Catherine Sloper rejects her suitor, whom her father believes to be a fortune-hunter, then has a second chance years later to rethink her decision.

Examines the direct link between images of women in popular culture and the increasing number of women resorting to cosmetic surgery and the often deadly conditions of bulimia and anorexia.

In the Kingdom of Ayortha, Aza, an unattractive woman with a magical voice, learns to balance her appearance with her talent, meanwhile, her singing attracts both Prince Ijori, who cannot resist it, and Queen Ivi, who plots to use it to benefit herself.

A young boy begins to wonder why people tell him he has an "interesting" face when a television producer comes to his school seeking a child star for a commercial.

The most beautiful fish in the entire ocean discovers the real value of personal beauty and friendship.

Examines the fictional future world of the "Uglies," as created by the author, and details the technology, speech patterns, and social customs; and discusses the cliques--which includes the Crims, Cutters, tech-heads, and surge-monkeys--and more.