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Publisher
First Look Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 101 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Carnelle, a hellraiser, enters the Miss Firecracker contest in the old-fashioned town where she was raised. Carnelle's not the usual contestant, but her cousin is a famous winner, and Carnelle's determined to equal her, no matter what.
Author
Series
Three rancheros volume 1
Pub. Date
2016.
Formats
Description
Hoping that if she wins a local beauty pageant her father will come home, Raymie practices twirling a baton and performing good deeds as she is drawn into an unlikely friendship with a drama queen and a saboteur.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Her legs are waxed, her lips are glossed, her gun is ready. FBI agent Gracie Hart is going undercover as one of the hopefuls to be the next Miss United States. But Gracie, whose idea of a fashion accessory is the set of handcuffs she slaps onto lawbreakers, doesn't have a beauty pageant bone in her body.
Author
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
257 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Staying at her grandmother's house while her father is deployed overseas, Gabby is disappointed when the girl's softball season is cancelled, a situation that forces her to choose between fighting to get on the boys' team and competing in a beauty pageant.
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
293 pages ; 21 cm
Description
"Charlotte and Ginny Gorman might look alike but they're completely different in every other way. Bookish Charlotte loves her job as an elementary school librarian, while her twin sister is an Instagram-famous beauty pageant contestant. Ginny has been chasing a crown since she was old enough to enunciate the words world peace, and she's not giving up until she's crowned Miss American Treasure. Dragging Charlotte to the pageant with her for good...
Author
Series
Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 15
Formats
Description
Each member of the Baby-sitters Club sponsors a different girl in the Little Miss Stoneybrook competition, as Dawn also tries to cope with the break-up of her family after her parents are divorced.
7) Misbehaviour
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entert
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A group of women conspire to disrupt the Miss World beauty pageant in London.
Author
Formats
Description
When a plane crash strands thirteen teen beauty contestants on a mysterious island, they struggle to survive, to get along with one another, to combat the island's other diabolical occupants, and to learn their dance numbers in case they are rescued in time for the competition.
10) Sugar and iced
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
289 pages ; 18 cm.
Description
When the high-strung judge who tried to eliminate Lupe, a friend of Melanie and Angie, from the Sweet Tiara beauty pageant turns up dead, Mel and Angie investigate in order to clear Lupe's name.
11) Coyote queen
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
264 pages ; 23 cm
Description
"Twelve-year-old Fud feels trapped. She lives a precarious life in a cramped trailer with her mom and her mom’s alcoholic ex-boxer boyfriend, Larry. Fud can see it’s only a matter of time until Larry explodes again, even if her mom keeps on making excuses for his behavior. If only Fud could find a way to be as free as the coyotes roaming the Wyoming countryside: strong, smart, independent, and always willing to protect their own. When...
Author
Series
Formats
Description
When she is hired to write lyrics for a contestant in the talent competition for the Miss Teen Queen America pageant, freelance writer Jaine Austen is plunged into a glittering nightmare of vicious stage moms, exacting judges and trash-talking teens after a catfight turns deadly.
13) Bone appetit
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
viii, 328 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
In the midst of a cook-off at a posh spa in Mississippi, southern PI Sarah Booth Delaney gets embroiled in a juicy murder when the beauty contest/cook-off's top contender gets poisoned.
Author
Series
Formats
Description
Precious Ramotswe, founder and owner of the only detective agency for the concerns of both ladies and others, investigates the alleged poisoning of the brother of an important "Government Man," and the moral character of the four finalists of the Miss Beauty and Integrity Contest, the winner of which will almost certainly be a contestant for the title of Miss Botswana. Yet her business is having money problems, and when other difficulties arise at...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (101 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Olive is a little girl who dreams of winning the Little Miss Sunshine contest. Her family wants her dream to come true, but they are so dysfunctional that they can barely make it through a day without some disaster befalling them. Olive's father, Richard, is unsuccessful as a motivational speaker. He is barely on speaking terms with Olive's mother. Her uncle Frank has attempted suicide following an unsuccessful romance with a male graduate student....
17) Dumplin'
Author
Series
Formats
Description
Self-proclaimed fat girl Willowdean Dickson (dubbed "Dumplin'" by her former beauty queen mom) has always been at home in her own skin. Her thoughts on having the ultimate bikini body? Put a bikini on your body. With her all-American beauty best friend, Ellen, by her side, things have always worked... until Will takes a job at Harpy's, the local fast-food joint. There she meets Private School Bo, a hot former jock. Will isn't surprised to find herself...
18) Miss Bala
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (113 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"An aspiring beauty queen finds herself in the wrong place at the worst possible time in this explosive crime thriller set amid Mexico's increasingly violent drug war. After witnessing a shooting in a nightclub, the young woman is kidnapped and forced to work for ruthless gangsters in order the keep her dreams, and her family, alive"--From container.
19) Like Vanessa
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Description
It is 1983 and Vanessa Martin, a thirteen-year-old African American girl in Newark's public housing, dreams of following in the footsteps of the first black Miss America, Vanessa Williams; but the odds are against her until a new teacher at school organizes a beauty pageant and encourages Vanessa to enter.
20) Time to roll
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Description
When thirteen-year-old Ellie reluctantly agrees to enter a beauty pageant with her best friend Coralee, the director seems determined to feature Ellie and her wheelchair, so she must find a way to participate on her own terms, all while saving her friendship and forming a better relationship with her divorced dad.
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