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Summary: If you like reading exciting pageant books, this is for you.
Review: This is about a young girl named Scottie Ann and her beauty queen sister. Her sister is a beauty queen while Scottie Ann is not. Her sister enters her in a beauty contest in her school. Read the book to find out what happens next.I think the story was sort of exciting. I would say it was an ok book.
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Summary: A EXCELLENT BOOK FOR TEENAGE GIRLS.
Review: Twenty Pageants Later is about a girl named Dane who's 16.She likes to enter in beatuy pageants.(In win)But her littlr sister Scottie-Anne in her best friend Lillie enter in a MARSH MIDDLE SCHOOL beatuy pageant.This book is great.I liked it so much that I had to tell all of you about it.
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Summary: Excellent!
Review: What I liked to most about this one is that Cooney doesn't make Dane, the professional Beauty Queen, out to be the Wicked Witch of the Runway. That would have been very easy to do since Dane is quite self-involved, and wishes to use her sister's first-ever beauty pageant to prove a point. Cooney paints Dane as a very human person: not angelic or sweet (though she can act it), but not evil and mean, either. In her own way, Dane's realism is as unvarnished as Scottie-Anne's. "I've had to listen to more crap than most people endure in a lifetime" she says to Scottie-Anne "No adult would dream about going up to a basketball star or an honor-roll student and saying 'Aren't you ashamed of yourself for doing that?' But people walk right up to me!" Scottie-Anne, of course is also marvelously portrayed. While she does feel envy for Dane's looks, her struggles to find her own success and to use her own gifts is conveyed with much more humor and irony than self-pity. And her admission to herself that she *wants* to win the pageant is very poignant. For better or for worse, beauty *does* count in our society, and probably most of us gals out there, no matter how smart and talented we are, probably wish we fulfilled the narrow ideals for what female beauty is in America. Scottie Anne sums it up perfectly: "You must have white teeth. Lots of them. Poise, out of all proportion to what you have actually accomplished on earth. Shiny, thick hair, a lovely dress, a sexy walk, and long, slim legs" and in her words we can truly see just how narrow the standards are. This book is truly well-done. Five stars for Cooney!
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