Beauty Queens

Written by Libba Bray

Stranded beauty queens must survive a desert island's wild challenges.

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390 pages

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Fifty beauty pageant contestants crash on a desert island, facing survival with little food and water. As they navigate this unexpected wilderness, they must decide between practicing their talents or embracing the wild. When unexpected visitors arrive, the stakes rise. Will they adapt or crumble under pressure? This adventure will challenge their perceptions of beauty and strength.

From the publisher

From bestselling, Printz Award-winning author Libba Bray, a desert island classic.Survival. Of the fittest.The fifty contestants in the Miss Teen Dream Pageant thought this was going to be a fun trip to the beach, where they could parade in their state-appropriate costumes and compete in front of the cameras. But sadly, their airplane had another idea, crashing on a desert island and leaving the survivors stranded with little food, little water, and practically no eyeliner. What’s a beauty queen to do? Continue to practice for the talent portion of the program - or wrestle snakes to the ground? Get a perfect tan - or learn to run wild? And what should happen when the sexy pirates show up? Welcome to the heart of non-exfoliated darkness. Your tour guide? None other than Libba Bray, the hilarious, sensational, Printz Award-winning author of A Great and Terrible Beauty and Going Bovine. The result is a novel that will make you laugh, make you think, and make you never see beauty the same way again.

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