Grand Canyon Reader Award
2014 · Teen · Recommended
About This Book
SURVIVAL.
OF THE FITTEST.
The fifty contestants in the Miss Teen Dream Pageant thought this was going to be a fun trip to the beach, where they could parade in their state-appropriate costumes and compete in front of the cameras. But sadly, their airplane had another idea, crashing on a desert island and leaving the survivors stranded with little food, little water, and practically no eyeliner.
What's a beauty queen to do? Continue to practice for the talent portion of the program -- or wrestle snakes to the ground? Get a perfect tan -- or learn to run wild? And what should happen when the sexy pirates show up?
Welcome to the heart of non-exfoliated darkness. Your tour guide? None other than Libba Bray, the hilarious, sensational, Printz Award-winning author of A Great and Terrible Beauty and Going Bovine. The result is a novel that will make you laugh, make you think, and make you never see beauty the same way again.
OF THE FITTEST.
The fifty contestants in the Miss Teen Dream Pageant thought this was going to be a fun trip to the beach, where they could parade in their state-appropriate costumes and compete in front of the cameras. But sadly, their airplane had another idea, crashing on a desert island and leaving the survivors stranded with little food, little water, and practically no eyeliner.
What's a beauty queen to do? Continue to practice for the talent portion of the program -- or wrestle snakes to the ground? Get a perfect tan -- or learn to run wild? And what should happen when the sexy pirates show up?
Welcome to the heart of non-exfoliated darkness. Your tour guide? None other than Libba Bray, the hilarious, sensational, Printz Award-winning author of A Great and Terrible Beauty and Going Bovine. The result is a novel that will make you laugh, make you think, and make you never see beauty the same way again.
Awards
Green Mountain Book Award
2014 · Grades 9-12 · Nominee
Eliot Rosewater Indiana High School Book Award
2013 · Grades 9-12 · Nominee
Capitol Choices: Noteworthy Books for Children and Teens
2012 · Audiobook · Recommended
Capitol Choices: Noteworthy Books for Children and Teens
2012 · Fourteen and Up · Recommended
Tayshas Reading
2012 · Young Adult · Commended
Audies
2012 · Narration Author(s) · Winner
Audies
2012 · Teen · Finalist
L.A. Times Book Prize
2011 · Young Adult Literature · Finalist
RT Reviewers Choice Award
2011 · Young Adult Novel · Winner
