beauty contests

Middle-schooler Theora Theremin and her brother Verbert find themselves whisked from the shores of hometown Lake Philodendron to an intergalactic beauty contest on Neptune.

Private investigator Precious Ramotswe attempts to find out who poisoned the brother of an important government official in Botswana, while probing the moral integrity of a group of beauty contestants, and worrying about money and her fiance's health.

Bess really wants to be the Pumpkin Princess so she can wear the crown and special dress in the fall parade, but snobby Brenda Carlton wins the princess contest. When the gown disappears and Nancy agrees to help Brenda find it, Bess feels betrayed and Nancy worries that being a detective means she will lose her best friend.

After being involved in the brittle, superficial world of a beauty contest, a country girl appreciates even more the solid values of her Indiana farm life.

Beautiful pageant pro Presley competes against Megan, a girl with connections and a mean streak who is not afraid to use devilish plots and evil schemes, as both try to win the Miss State Outstanding Teen Competition.

Sixteen-year-old Alice MacLeod's life as an outcast begins to change when she experiments with being friends with different sorts of people, tries drinking alcohol and eating meat, and competes in the Miss Smithers beauty pageant.

Tired of being the girl with the great personality who is constantly overshadowed by pretty girls, especially her pageant-princess little sister, sixteen-year-old Lexi Anderson decides to take on the pageant world herself and show the pretty girls and the boys who adore them, including her crush Logan, that she can play that game too.

When a plane crash strands thirteen teen beauty contestants on a mysterious island, they struggle to survive, to get along with one another, to combat the island's other diabolical occupants, and to learn their dance numbers in case they are rescued in time for the competition.