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Author
Series
Rainbow Fish (Picture books) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
The most beautiful fish in the entire ocean discovers the real value of personal beauty and friendship.
Author
Series
Goddess girls. Main series volume 3
Publisher
Aladdin Books
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.
3) Uglies
Author
Series
Uglies volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tally is about to turn sixteen, and she can't wait. 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. But Tally's new friend Shay isn't sure she wants to be pretty. When Shay runs away, authorities offer Tally the worst choice she can imagine: find her friend and turn her...
4) Pretties
Author
Series
Uglies volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Tally Youngblood never felt like the other Pretties--she almost didn't become one. But Tally isn't the only one who feels like she's missing a part of herself. After uncovering sinister clues about the Pretty surgery, she stumbles upon a possible cure for Pretty-mindedness and a possible escape from the city. But the cure could have deadly consequences.
5) Fairest
Author
Series
Ella enchanted volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the Kingdom of Ayortha, Aza, an unattractive woman with a magical voice, learns to balance her appearance with her talent, meanwhile, her singing attracts both Prince Ijori, who cannot resist it, and Queen Ivi, who plots to use it to benefit herself.
6) Beastly
Author
Series
Kendra chronicles volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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.
7) The Belles
Author
Series
Belles (Dhonielle Clayton) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
"Camellia Beauregard is a Belle. In the opulent world of Orléans, Belles are revered, for they control Beauty, and Beauty is a commodity coveted above all else. In Orléans, the people are born gray, they are born damned, and only with the help of a Belle and her talents can they transform and be made beautiful. But it's not enough for Camellia to be just a Belle. She wants to be the favorite--the Belle chosen by the Queen of Orléans to live in...
8) Hunted
Author
Series
Hunted volume 1
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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...
10) Specials
Author
Series
Uglies volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
After being captured and surgically transformed into a "special," teenaged Tally Youngblood, now a government agent programmed to protect society from outside threats, is ordered to eliminate the rebel colony New Smoke, Tally's former home.
11) Sing Me to Sleep
Author
Publisher
Penguin Group
Pub. Date
c 2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
An unattractive seventeen-year-old who has a beautiful singing voice undergoes a physical transformation before performing in a singing competition with her choir in Switzerland, where she meets a boy with troubling secrets, and they fall in love.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
We have all heard the story of Cinderella, the beautiful child cast out to slave among the ashes. But what of her stepsisters, the homely pair exiled into ignominy by the fame of their lovely sibling? What fate befell those untouched by beauty ... and what curses accompanied Cinderella's looks?
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Desperate to improve his standing with the girls at Zummer High, Leon Sanders--a junior--seems to be making headway with his long-time crush Amy Green, but when he starts to get to know a social pariah named Melody Sanders, Leon begins to see beyond Melody's disfigurement.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
This fast-paced novel examines the lives, loves, and sacrifices of the visionaries who invented the modern cosmetics industry: Josiah Herzenstein, born in a Polish Jewish Shtlel, the entrepreneur who transforms herself into a global style icon and the richest woman in the world, Josephine Herz; Constance Gardiner, her rival, the ultimate society woman who invents the door-to-door business and its female workforce but whose deepest secret threatens...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the office of a plastic surgeon, lawyer Kerry McGrath is shocked to see two patients resembling a woman who was murdered. McGrath is familiar with the woman, having prosecuted the murderer who is now on death row. She reopens the case and gets a shock. By the author of Remember Me.
16) Kiyomi
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Conceded to be the most beautiful among their peers, a deer and a fire lizard try to convince each other of their superior beauty.
19) Creole
Author
Publisher
Serendipity Press
Pub. Date
c1975
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Because Creole is ugly, the other animals assume she is mean until they realize their mistake.
20) Creeping Beauty
Author
Language
English
Description
"Bitsy is no one’s ideal princess. She’s heard it all: that it’s a shame she’s so plain, so lacking in grace. That the best thing for her to do is simply wait (and wait some more) and hope some prince will grant her a happy ending. Then Bitsy pricks her finger on a spindle and falls down, down, down. Into a world where cutthroats and con artists are more common than curtsies. Where no one ages and everyone is beautiful. Where an inscrutable...