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Author
Publisher
MIRA
Pub. Date
2004, 1998
Description
When a woman trades facial deformity for marquee beauty, she embarks on a "painful and illuminating journey of self-discovery" in this heartfelt novel (Nora Roberts).
Born with a facial deformity, Charlotte Godowski was used to the horrified stares she received from strangers. She'd learned to accept her appearance and the effects it had on others. Then came the cruel incident that compelled her to undergo a life-changing surgery.
Now she is...
3) The fold
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Korean American high school student Joyce Kim feels like a nonentity compared to her beautiful older sister, and when her aunt offers to pay for plastic surgery on her eyes, she jumps at the chance, thinking it will change her life for the better.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2005
Description
Gorgeous goddesses seem to surround lowly script-reader Anna Brown-from her deranged, glamour-queen boss to her perfect, pouting roommates. For Anna, being less-than-beautiful is hard to bear. With a dead-end job and a dead-beat boyfriend, she wonders if she can ever be a success. In beauty-crazed London, perhaps being talented just isn't enough. Enter Mark Swan, Britain's hottest director. Rugged, reclusive and powerful, everybody wants a piece of...
7) Beastly
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 8
Description
A modern retelling of "Beauty and the Beast" from the point of view of the Beast, a vain Manhattan private school student who is turned into a monster and must find true love before he can return to his human form.
Author
Description
Veronique Vincent graces the covers of magazines and walks the runways of haute couture shows across the globe, yet she prefers spending time at home or with her boyfriend. An explosion at Zaventem Airport in Brussels changes her life forever: Veronique finds herself hospitalized and alone after the blast kills both of the people she loved most. Severely injured, she plunges into seclusion and struggles to discover what truly matters in life. When...
9) Specials
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 12
Formats
Description
After being captured and surgically transformed into a "special, " teenaged Tally Youngblood, now a government agent programmed to protect society from outside threats, is ordered to eliminate the rebel colony New Smoke, Tally's former home.
10) Laxmi's mooch
Author
Publisher
Kokila
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
After Laxmi's friend Zoe points out the hairs on her lip, Laxmi is very self-conscious until her East Indian parents help her to accept and celebrate her appearance.
Author
Series
Beast and the Bethany volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Handsome Ebenezer Tweezer has lived comfortably for nearly 512 years by feeding the magical beast in his mansion's attic whatever it wants, but when the beast demands a child, they are not prepared for Bethany.--
Author
Series
Belles volume 2
Publisher
Freeform Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Camille, Edel, and Remy, aided by The Iron Ladies and backed by alternative newspaper The Spider's Web, race to outwit Sophia, find Princess Charlotte, and return her to Orléans.
Author
Series
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
Rebellious and outspoken Edel Beauregard enters the Beauty Trials--a deadly competition to find the next Queen of Orleans. The erratic former queen, Sophia, has been imprisoned. Peace has returned to Orl?ans. Her sister, Charlotte, sits on the throne and invokes the ancient tradition of the Beauty Trials: a series of tests meant to find the new ruler of Orl?ans. Edel Beauregard decides to enter, and promises to bind her arcana to keep from having...
14) The Belles
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 16
Description
"In a world where Beauty is a commodity only a few control, one Belle will learn the dark secrets behind her powers, and rise up to change the world"--
In the opulent world of Orléans, Belles are revered, for they control Beauty, and Beauty is a commodity coveted above all else. Camellia Beauregard wants to be the Belle chosen by the Queen of Orléans to live in the royal palace, to tend to the royal family and their court, to be recognized as the...
15) How beautiful
Author
Publisher
Greystone Kids, Greystone Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"When a caterpillar is called "beautiful" one day, he wonders, what could that mean? No one has the same answer. A bear declares that honeycomb is beautiful, the squirrels find dry leaves are beautiful, and a mole loves his beautiful burrow. All the while, the blackbird disagrees with each answer! Will the caterpillar ever find out what beautiful means?"--
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
c2011
Description
As children in 1920s Levy, S.C., Maggie and George's idyllic youth was interrupted by the arrival of a mysterious magician, and the dark secret he carries will leave one person dead, a house burned down, and all of their lives forever altered. Though George has lived with his long buried past, he decides, at 80, that it's time to return to South Carolina and face the truth.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
"Meet the Knights of Creation, a group of artistic friends struggling with society's standards of beauty. Barb, a stunningly beautiful costume designer, chooses to don a fat suit in hopes that it will help her meet the man of her dreams--a man who can see beyond her looks. Lily, Barb's brilliantly talented, unfortunate-looking musician friend, goes to fantastic lengths to attract the shallow man she loves. Penelope, neither beautiful nor talented,...
Author
Series
Description
"Sally Milz is a sketch writer for The Night Owls, the late night live comedy show that airs each Saturday. With a couple of heartbreaks under her belt, she's long abandoned the search for love, settling instead for the occasional hook-up, career success, and a close relationship with her stepfather to round out a satisfying life. But when Sally's friend and fellow writer Danny Horst begins dating Annabel, a glamorous actress who guest-hosted the...
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