Twenty Pageants Later

by Caroline B. Cooney

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As the younger and plainer sister of a frequent beauty contest winner, fourteen-year-old Scottie-Ann has always had mixed feelings about such competitions especially when she finds herself a reluctant contestant in the Marsh Mid Princess Pageant.

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Caroline Cooney was born in 1947 in Geneva, New York. She studied music, art, and English at various colleges, but never graduated. She began writing while in college. Her young adult books include The Face on the Milk Carton, Whatever Happened to Janie?, The Voice on the Radio, What Janie Found, No Such Person, and the Cheerleaders Series. She show more received an ALA Best Book for Young Adults and an ALA Quick Pick for Young Adults for Driver's Ed and an ALA Quick Pick for Reluctant Young Adult Readers for Twenty Pageants Later. Two of her titles, The Rear View Mirror and The Face on the Milk Cartoon, were made into television movies. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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Fiction and Literature, Teen, Tween, Young Adult
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813.54Literature & rhetoricAmerican literature in EnglishAmerican fiction in English1900-19991945-1999
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PZ7 .C7834Language and LiteratureFiction and juvenile belles lettresFiction and juvenile belles lettresJuvenile belles lettres
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