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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Gregory Maguire, critically acclaimed author of Wicked, returns with his eagerly anticipated second novel. Using a dazzling reincarnation of the Cinderella story set in 17th century Holland, Maguire deftly weaves together stories of inner and outer beauty. Iris is a plain but intelligent young girl. Forced to flee England with her recently widowed mother, Margarethe, and her older sister, she finds herself swept into a life that becomes a legend....
5) The list
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Every year at Mount Washington High School somebody posts a list of the prettiest and ugliest girls from each grade--this is the story of eight girls, freshman to senior, and how they are affected by the list.
8) Mirrored
Author
Series
Kendra chronicles volume 3
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
A modern, multi-generational tale of Kendra, the witch from "Snow White," who trains Violet, an ugly, lonely, and heartbroken girl in the 1980s who transforms herself into "the fairest one of all" but still cannot win Greg's heart, and Celine, Greg's daughter with Violet's high school rival, Jennifer.
9) Stepsister
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Isabelle is one of Cinderella's ugly stepsisters, who cut off their toes in an attempt to fit into the glass slipper; but there is more to her story than a maimed foot, for the Marquis de la Chance is about to offer her a choice and the opportunity to change her fate--there will be blood and danger, but also the possibility of redemption and triumph, and most of all the chance to find her true self.
10) Gorgeous
Author
Series
Avery sisters trilogy volume 2
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
282 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ninth-grader Allison has always been the least attractive among her sisters, but when she allows the devil to possess her cell phone in exchange for appearing to be gorgeous, she must confront the power and deceptiveness of appearances.
11) Specials
Author
Series
Uglies volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
When she is turned into a super-modelesque super-fighting machine, Tally, a former ugly, is ordered to keep the uglies down and the pretties stupid in a carefully engineered world of perfection where she refuses to play by the rules.
12) The Belles
Author
Series
Belles (Dhonielle Clayton) volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
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"--
13) Laxmi's mooch
Author
Publisher
Kokila
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm
Language
English
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.
14) Uglies
Author
Series
Uglies volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Everybody gets to be supermodel gorgeous. What could be wrong with that? Tally is about to turn sixteen, and she can't wait. Not for her license -- for turning pretty. In Tally's world, your sixteenth birthday brings an operation that turns you from a repellent ugly into a stunningly attractive pretty and catapults you into a high-tech paradise where your only job is to have a really great time. In just a few weeks Tally will be there. But Tally's...
15) Unashamed
Author
Series
Lineage of grace volume 2
Publisher
Tyndale House
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
4 sound discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A Bible-based novel that looks at the life of Rahab, a woman exploited for her beauty but who held fast to her belief in an all-powerful God.
Author
Series
Tales of the wide-awake princess volume 1
Publisher
Bloomsbury Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
261 p. : map ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Annie, younger sister of the princess who would be known as Sleeping Beauty, is immune to magic and stays awake when the rest of the castle falls into an enchanted sleep, then sets out to find a way to break the spell.
17) Hunted
Author
Series
Hunted volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Yeva knows that the forest holds secrets and that her father is the only hunter who's ever come close to discovering them. Out in the wilderness there's no pressure to make idle chatter with vapid baronessas, or to submit to marrying a wealthy gentleman. When her father goes missing in the woods, Yeva sets her sights on one prey: the Beast he'd been obsessively tracking just before his disappearance. As Yeva hunts, she finds a cursed valley, a ruined...
18) Pretties
Author
Series
Uglies volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Finally surgically transformed into a "pretty, " sixteen-year-old Tally, now gorgeous and programmed to think only happy thoughts, is plagued by tangled memories of living in the Smoke, a rebel colony of "ugly" runaways hiding from the Special Circumstances authorities.
Author
Series
Belles (Dhonielle Clayton) volume 3
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Rebellious and outspoken Edel Beauregard enters the Beauty Trials--a deadly competition to find the next Queen of Orleans.
Author
Series
Publisher
Aladdin
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"Aphrodite, goddessgirl of love, must deal with jealousy after giving Athena a makeover. It doesn't seem fair that the godboys pay more attention to her friend when Aphrodite is supposed to be destined for love! She also copes with a crush from an unlikely source-the nerdy Hephaestus (god of the smith)-and learns that love comes in many forms"--
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