Beauty Queens by Libba Bray is about what could happen if a plane of 50 teen beauty contestants crashes on a tropical island. Also, the best book cover ever!The annual Miss Teen Dream Pageant is flying all 50 contestants to a tropical beach to practice the dance routines, film back stories, and work on their tans. But the plane goes down on the way - and the survivors are trapped on a desert island with little food, little drinkable water, and little hope for survival.
When times get tough, some beauty queens stick to the script their managers helped them create, some find their true selves, and some flip out.
Touching on the use of advertising and media to control our sense of self, Bray winds our truths into an outrageous story of self-discovery and girl power. Bray is obviously mad and brilliant! Read it!
(Also, loved the shout out to friends in the character names - Jennifer Hubert Swan of Reading Rants and author David Levithan were two I spotted.)
Bray, Libba. (2011). Beauty Queens. New York: Scholastic.
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