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1) Beastly
Author
Series
Lexile measure
580L
Language
English
Formats
Description
A modern retelling of "Beauty and the Beast" from the point of view of the Beast, a vain Manhattan private school student who is turned into a monster and must find true love before he can return to his human form.
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Losing her father in a school fire that disfigures her face, Sicily is raised by a dynamic aunt who urges her to pursue a normal life, an effort that is influenced by her fiancé, a terrible drunken revelation and an opportunity for a risky full-face transplant.
3) The Belles
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Lexile measure
HL 650L
Language
English
Formats
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 own...
Author
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Formats
Description
On seeing her portrait, a servant girl modelling for an artist in 17th century Holland realizes she is ugly. But the portrait opens her eyes to the world of art, she becomes a painter and is transformed by her work so that when a prince charming appears she is no longer ugly.
5) Gorgeous
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Formats
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.
Author
Language
English
Description
A famous, young model has her appearance forever altered and loses the people she loves most in a terrorist attack and changes the course and purpose of her life after reading a revealing letter that accompanied her mother's will.
Veronique Vincent is a star. At age twenty-two, she is one of the most sought-after models in fashion, gracing the covers of magazines and walking the runways of haute couture shows across the globe. Yet, despite being...
9) Fairest
Author
Lexile measure
590L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a land where beauty and singing are valued above all else, Aza eventually comes to reconcile her unconventional appearance and her magical voice, and learns to accept herself for who she truly is.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
333 pages : illustrations, map ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
It's 1869, and chaos rules Silver City. As Rebekah Weaver recovers from an accident that has left her badly burned, she worries that her father's handsome new assistant won't see past her scarred exterior. Deputy Marshal Nathaniel Kirkland is working undercover to investigate a series of explosions in the mines and businesses of Silver City. When ominous notes begin appearing on townspeople's doors, Nate needs Rebekah's help to uncover the identity...
13) Laxmi's mooch
Author
Publisher
Kokila
Pub. Date
2021.
Lexile measure
AD 500L
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) Only ever yours
Author
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2015.
Lexile measure
780L
Physical Desc
406 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"In Louise O'Neill's world of 'Only Ever Yours' women are no longer born naturally, girls (called 'eves') are raised in Schools and trained in the arts of pleasuring men until they come of age. Freida and Isabel are best friends. Now, aged sixteen and in their final year, they expect to be selected as companions -- wives to powerful men. All they have to do is ensure they stay in the top ten beautiful girls in their year. The alternatives -- life...
15) Stepsister
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Lexile measure
HL 640L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Isabelle should be blissfully happy - she's about to win the handsome prince. Except Isabelle isn't the beautiful girl who lost the glass slipper and captured the prince's heart. She's the ugly stepsister who's cut off her toes to fit into Cinderella's shoe . . . which is now filling with her blood. When the prince discovers Isabelle's deception, she's turned away in shame. It's no more than she deserves: she's a plain girl in a world that values...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2005
Lexile measure
970L
Physical Desc
148 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Jamie is crushing on Hudson. Someone too-gross-to-be- named is crushing on Jamie. And Hudson is crushing on ... Princess Turd of Turdsylvania (a.k.a. The Prettiest Girl in the World). Middle school may be grim, but it's no fairy tale. And crazy doesn't even begin to cover it. Jamie Kelly writes in her diary about her crush on Mr. Prince, the new student teacher at Mackerel Middle School, and she feels certain that he is the secret admirer who is sending...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A young girl's astonishing, poignant first look into the turbulent heart of things
"I had in my care that summer four dogs, three cats, the Moran kids, Daisy, my eight-year-old cousin, and Flora, the toddler child of a local artist. There was also, for a while, a litter of wild rabbits, three of them, that had been left under our back steps..."
Alice McDermott's haunting and enchanting new work of fiction is narrated by a woman who was born beautiful....
18) The rainbow fish
Author
Lexile measure
AD 610L
Language
English
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Description
The most beautiful fish in the entire ocean discovers the real value of personal beauty and friendship.
19) Uglies
Author
Lexile measure
770L
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...
20) Makeup mess
Author
Lexile measure
440L
Language
English
Description
Hoping to be as beautiful as a movie star, Julie excitedly buys and applies various kinds of makeup, but the people around her do not react the way she expects.