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2) Specials
Author
Series
Uglies volume 3
Description
The third installment of Scott Westerfeld's New York Times bestselling and award-winning Uglies series—a global phenomenon that started the dystopian trend.
Tally thought they were a rumor, but now she's one of them. A Special. A super-amped fighting machine, engineered to keep the uglies down and the pretties stupid.
But maybe being perfectly programmed with strength and focus isn't better than anything she's ever known....
Tally thought they were a rumor, but now she's one of them. A Special. A super-amped fighting machine, engineered to keep the uglies down and the pretties stupid.
But maybe being perfectly programmed with strength and focus isn't better than anything she's ever known....
4) The Belles
Author
Series
Belles (Dhonielle Clayton) volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
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 most talented Belle in the land. But she soon finds that behind the gilded palace walls live dark secrets. When the queen asks Camellia to risk her...
Author
Series
Twice upon a time volume 3
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
282 p. ; 20 cm.
Description
Struggling with looks that she thinks do not reflect her name, Beauty meets a gangly youth who lives in the shadow of his older brother and who a witch enchants to assume the form of a beast until a girl willingly dances with him.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 30 cm
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?"--
8) Pretties
Author
Series
Uglies volume 2
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
The beast and the Bethany volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
232 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
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
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
Description
"In this hilarious illustrated fable, Anna Van Ogre loses her lovely monstrous looks and is turned into a sickeningly adorable, rosy-cheeked little girl. It starts her on a journey to learn an unforgettable lesson about true beauty"--
11) The prettiest
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
309 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
When a list appears online ranking the top fifty prettiest girls in the eighth grade, everything turns upside down. Eve Hoffman, ranked number one, can't ignore how everyone is suddenly talking about her looks. Sophie, the most popular girl in school, feels lower than ever when she's bullied for being ranked number two. Nessa Flores-Brady didn't even make the list, but she doesn't care -- or does she? The three girls ban together to find out who made...
12) Laxmi's mooch
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm
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) Stepsister
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
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.
Author
Series
Belles (Dhonielle Clayton) volume 3
Pub. Date
2023.
Formats
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 Orléans. 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 Orléans. Edel Beauregard decides to enter, and promises to bind her arcana to keep from having...
Author
Series
Belles (Dhonielle Clayton) volume 2
Pub. Date
2019.
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.
17) El pez arco iris
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Description
El pez arco iris, gracias a sus relucientes escamas, es el pez mas bonito de todo el océano. Sin embargo, se encuentra solo. Por qué los demas peces no quieren jugar con él?
The most beautiful fish in the entire ocean discovers the real value of personal beauty and friendship.
18) Beautiful
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 x 29 cm
Description
"Every girl is unique, talented and lovable...Every girl is beautiful"--Book jacket.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm
Description
Un alegre libro infantil ilustrado de positividad corporal sobre el camino de una niña india-americana para aceptar su vello corporal y celebrar su herencia después de que se burlaran de ella por su bigote.
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.
20) Hunted
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Description
Follows the experiences of an aristocrat's daughter, Yeva, who tracks a mysterious woodland creature her father has become obsessed with and that stands at the center of his failing sanity.
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