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Gr 6–8—Olivia Tatum has won beauty pageants since she was a small child. Now 13, she is starting to question this activity, thinking her only asset is being pretty. Meanwhile, her overweight mother and pageant coach are drilling her for the upcoming Prettiest Doll competition, and she's had enough. Then she meets Dan, an unusually short 15-year-old who has landed in her Missouri town, camping out, having run away from his home in Texas after his mother pressured him to get growth hormone ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Thirteen-year-old Missourian Olivia Jane knows she's pretty, and she's grateful for it. Pushed by her shallow, obsessed mom ("Being pretty is the best thing to be good at because that's what people really care about"), Liv has competed in pageants all her life and has mostly enjoyed herself. Though there are hints from the beginning that there's much more to vacant-seeming Liv, it's when she meets diminutive fifteen-year-old runaway Dan that she ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More