Beauty /
Butcher, Nancy, author.
Beauty / Nancy Butcher. - First Simon Pulse edition. - New York : Simon Pulse, 2005. - 168 pages ; 18 cm.
Beautiful Ana has to make herself ugly in order for her vain mother, Queen Veda of Ran, to love her. When Ana is forced to go to the prestigious Academy for Girls, she learns how potent a drug beauty can be. Beauty to die for... Queen Veda of Ran does not believe in growing old gracefully. In fact she will shun anything that makes her look or feel less than the fairest in the land including her daughter, Ana. Luckily Ana has both beauty and intelligence. She realizes the way to remain close to her beloved mother is to make herself ugly. Ana does everything she can to maintain her new disheveled appearance: She doesn't bathe for days, doesn't wash or brush her hair, and bites her nails down to the quick. Her plan works. She has finally won her mother's love. Then Ana realizes all the lovely young girls of Ran are being sent to the prestigious Academy for Girls, including Ana's best friend, Pell. When Ana's told she must go too, she resists. She doesn't want to leave her loving mother. But Ana has no choice. She goes and once there learns how potent a drug beauty can be.
Grade 7-12
0689862350
2004105856
Beauty, Personal--Fiction.
Snow White (Tale)--Fiction.
Mothers and daughters--Fiction.
Kings, queens, rulers, etc.--Fiction.
Boarding schools--Fiction.
Schools--Fiction.
FICTION / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology.
FICTION / Fantasy / General.
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Beauty / Nancy Butcher. - First Simon Pulse edition. - New York : Simon Pulse, 2005. - 168 pages ; 18 cm.
Beautiful Ana has to make herself ugly in order for her vain mother, Queen Veda of Ran, to love her. When Ana is forced to go to the prestigious Academy for Girls, she learns how potent a drug beauty can be. Beauty to die for... Queen Veda of Ran does not believe in growing old gracefully. In fact she will shun anything that makes her look or feel less than the fairest in the land including her daughter, Ana. Luckily Ana has both beauty and intelligence. She realizes the way to remain close to her beloved mother is to make herself ugly. Ana does everything she can to maintain her new disheveled appearance: She doesn't bathe for days, doesn't wash or brush her hair, and bites her nails down to the quick. Her plan works. She has finally won her mother's love. Then Ana realizes all the lovely young girls of Ran are being sent to the prestigious Academy for Girls, including Ana's best friend, Pell. When Ana's told she must go too, she resists. She doesn't want to leave her loving mother. But Ana has no choice. She goes and once there learns how potent a drug beauty can be.
Grade 7-12
0689862350
2004105856
Beauty, Personal--Fiction.
Snow White (Tale)--Fiction.
Mothers and daughters--Fiction.
Kings, queens, rulers, etc.--Fiction.
Boarding schools--Fiction.
Schools--Fiction.
FICTION / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology.
FICTION / Fantasy / General.
F BUT