Pretty Monsters, (Hardcover)
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| Management number | 238776027 | Release Date | 2026/07/11 | List Price | $7.60 | Model Number | 238776027 | ||
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<p><b>There's nothing more monstrous than perfection in J. S. Lemon's masterful and haunting work of middle grade speculative fiction, a cautionary tale about the commodification of beauty. </b> </p><p><i>Beauty queens don't eat candy.</i> </p><p>Ruby Driscoll became a beauty queen at the age of four. Since then, she's worked hard to be a flawless pageant girl--a toxic goal that takes on a sinister truth when Ruby's arms start moving strangely at her latest competition. Less like a human girl's and more like . . . a Barbie doll's. Soon Ruby's already smooth skin becomes poreless, and her already shiny hair becomes impossibly glossy. </p><p>As Ruby's frightening transformation progresses, the better Ruby does at her beauty pageants, and the prouder her mother is. But when this newfound "perfection" turns into a nightmare, Ruby must find a way to regain her humanity, or risk becoming nothing more than a pretty monster.</p>
- Pretty Monsters, (Hardcover)
- Author: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Byr)
- ISBN: 9780374394578
- Format: Hardcover
- Publication Date: 2027-03-09
- Page Count: 208
| Book format | Hardcover |
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| Fiction/nonfiction | Non-Fiction |
| Genre | Children's Books |
| Publication date | March, 2027 |
| Pages | 208 |
| Reading level | Grade 10 |
| Age range | 10 - 14 Years |
| Subgenre | General |
| Series title | No Series |
| Number in series | 0 |
| Edition | 1 |
| Publisher | Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) |
| Language | English |
| Is collectible | N |
| Character | Ruby Driscoll |
| Binding type | Case Binding |
| Recording time | 0 min |
| Retail packaging | Single Piece |
| Assembled product dimensions (l x w x h) | 5.38 x 1.00 x 8.25 in |
| Assembled product weight | 1 |
| Bisac subject heading | Juvenile Fiction |
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