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1) Uglies
Author
Series
Uglies volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Just before their sixteenth birthdays, when they will will be transformed into beauties whose only job is to have a great time, Tally's best friend runs away and Tally must find her and turn her in, or never become pretty at all.
3) 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"--
Author
Series
Belles (Dhonielle Clayton) volume 2
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
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.
6) Pretties
Author
Series
Uglies volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
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
Rainbow Fish (Picture books) volume 1
Publisher
North-South Books
Pub. Date
1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The most beautiful fish in the entire ocean discovers the real value of personal beauty and friendship.
8) Hunted
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
Though Yeva grew up with the city's highest aristocrats, far from her father's old lodge, she knows that the forest holds secrets and that her father is the only hunter who's ever come close to discovering them. So when her father loses his fortune and moves Yeva and her sisters back to the outskirts of town, Yeva is secretly relieved. Out in the wilderness, there's no pressure to make idle chatter with vapid baronessas...or to submit to marrying...
9) Fairest
Author
Series
Ella enchanted volume 3
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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
Rainbow magic. Superstar fairies volume 5
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2013], c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Rachel and Kristy are excited when their fairy friends take them to the Fairyland Music Festival, but after Jack Frost steals Frankie's music notes, it is up to the girls to find them.
Author
Series
Tales of the wide-awake princess volume 1
Publisher
Bloomsbury Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 10
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.
Author
Publisher
Pocket Books/ MTV Books
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
When gorgeous fifteen-year-old model, dancer, and aspiring actress Oribella Bettancourt develops alopecia and starts losing her trademark long blond hair, it forces both her and her doting mother to reassess their hopes and dreams.
Author
Series
Goddess girls. Main series volume 3
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
After giving Athena a makeover Aphrodite becomes jealous of her friend, but she focuses on figuring out how to help a mortal win a race against Atalanta, which will result in either their marriage or his death.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Kenzie's life is transformed when she is voted one of the prettiest girls at Vienna High, but when the girls on the list start to die, Kenzie is determined to uncover the deadly secrets of the list before her number is up.
Author
Publisher
Angry Robot
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
When her flawless skin becomes infected with a debilitating disease, causing her to lose her ability to shimmer, Lileala, the Rare Indigo of a color-rich utopia in the center of the galaxy, discovers her destiny goes far beyond her beauty as a new power awakens inside her.
Author
Series
Rainbow magic. Fashion fairies volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2013?]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"The Fashion Fairies use their magic accessories to make sure that fashion everywhere is fun and fresh. But when jealous Jack Frost steals their magic away, it could lead to a fashion flop! Luckily, Rachel and Kirsty are ready to dive into another fairy adventure...Now that Miranda the Beauty Fairy's magic is missing, no one is looking or feeling very good! Can Rachel and Kirsty help?"--P. [4] of cover.
18) The Ugly One
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"At the height of the Incan empire, a girl called the Ugly One because of a disfiguring scar on her face, seeks to have the scar removed and instead finds a life path as a shaman"
19) Stepsister
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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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
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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...
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