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Beauty Queen
A friend handed me the book in the library as a joke because of the title. I read the back, and it sounded interesting. When I read this book, I didn't want to put it down. Cliché or not, I think it was very good. It shows how trying drugs once to help you relax can lead to needing it all the time.
Beauty Queen
This book is so real, its almost too real. Scary scenerio that this woman put herself into. A tormented life filled with highs and lows beyond what most would ever see in life.I do believe this book, if read by one person in the throughs of what this woman was living through, could be healed then this book will be historical. I also hope that this book will be in all Libraries,Schools etc.Abuse comes in so many forms. I recommend a couple of other books as well. Nightmares Echo by Katlyn Stewart,Lost Boy by David Pelzer and Running With Scissors by Augusten Buroughs
Beauty Queen
I very much recommend this book. After THE LOSERS' CLUB by Richard Perez, a down-and-out story of a hapless writer addicted to personal ads, it's the best book I read so far this year. BEAUTY QUEEN is about a girl named Sam who's having trouble with money, her mother, and her mother's abusive boyfriend. She decides to move out into her own apartment. Since money is hard to come by when all she's doing is working at a fast food place, she decides to become an exotic dancer. Sam later on gets addicted to heroin. And slips into the hash reality of drugs. A superb book and a must read! I couldn't stop caring about what happened. Like all great books it's a little disturbing and not something I'm bound to forget soon! Try this book!
Beauty Queen
I am a HS reading/English Teacher. Some my students in my reading LAB have never read an indepentdent reading book. This book will keep (mostly girls) interested and they will finish the book. I do however recommend that it be given out indiscriminately, due to the subject matter. It is good for more mature students.
Beauty Queen
This book is very scary in ways you don't really see until the end. It's strange how people are truly like the one's in Beauty Queen. This book deserves 5 stars.
Beauty Queen
I was pulled in by this book the minute I opened it and read the first diary entry.You get to know Sam so well, and you begin to understand how she feels and understand how she justifies what she does.I would recommend this story to any teenage girl, not only because of the moral behind the story, but because it is just such a great book.