Beauty Queens

Name: Beauty Queens
Brand: Scholastic Audio
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.8 (5 reviews)
Author: Libba Bray
ISBN: 9780545357739

Author: Libba Bray

Narrator: Libba Bray

Unabridged: 14 hr 54 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Scholastic Audio Books

Published: 05/24/2011

Categories: Young Adult Fiction, Coming Of Age, Action & Adventure, Children's Fiction

Synopsis

From bestselling, Printz Award-winning author Libba Bray, the story of a plane of beauty pageant contestants that crashes on a desert island.From bestselling, Printz Award-winning author Libba Bray, the story of a plane of beauty pageant contestants that crashes on a desert island.Teen beauty queens. A "Lost"-like island. Mysteries and dangers. No access to emall. And the spirit of fierce, feral competition that lives underground in girls, a savage brutality that can only be revealed by a journey into the heart of non-exfoliated darkness. Oh, the horror, the horror! Only funnier. With evening gowns. And a body count.

About Libba Bray

Libba Bray is the New York Times bestselling author of The Gemma Doyle trilogy (A Great and Terrible Beauty, Rebel Angels, The Sweet Far Thing); the Michael L. Printz Award-winning Going Bovine; Beauty Queens, an L.A. Times Book Prize finalist; and The Diviners series. She is originally from Texas but makes her home in New York City. You can find her at libbabray.com.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Penny on May 31, 2011

Preheat oven to 375 degrees. In a large bowl, mix the plots from Drop Dead Gorgeous, Austin Powers, Mean Girls, Lost, and Lord of the Flies. Whip until nice and fluffy. Stir in equal parts Bollywood, Boy Bands, Pirates, An Evil Corporation, Crappy Parenting, Reality TV, Miss Teen USA pageants, and c......more

Goodreads review by Emily May on August 10, 2016

According to this book and the Teen Dream Beauty contestants, women and particularly girls tend to apologise immediately before or after voicing their opinion. For example: "I'm sorry but I just think..." or "I really don't like such-and-such, sorry but that's just my opinion". So in true girl power......more

Goodreads review by karen on June 27, 2018

BITCHES!! HEY!! BITCHES!! OVER HERE!! excuse me - i mean young ladies. put down that stephanie meyer book. is that cosmo girl?? yeah, lose that. stop reading the clique and get over here right now. don't read anything else until you read this book. you can even stop reading this review, i don't care,......more

Goodreads review by Hailey on April 14, 2017

4.5* Reread for class 2017* STILL SO AMAZINGLY HILARIOUS “I love you for who you are, not who the world thinks you should be.” This book is definitely one that you're either going to love or you're going to hate. I can see why people wouldn't like it but fortunately for me, I really really enjoyed thi......more

Goodreads review by Emma on January 21, 2019

4 Stars! I really enjoyed this book. Super funny, entertaining, and real. CW: death/ mild violence, transphobia, racism, and sexism (all challenged in text) I had a lot of fun with Beauty Queens! This story is very engaging and entertaining. Libba Bray is hilarious, and the many ridiculous situations......more