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Pretty Monsters

Pretty Monsters

Lemon, J. S.

Hardcover

General Juvenile Fiction

Publisher Price: $18.99

PREORDER - Expected ship date March 9, 2027

ISBN10: 0374394571
ISBN13: 9780374394578
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Byr)
Published: Mar 9 2027
Pages: 208
Weight: 1.00
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.38 Depth: 8.25
Language: English

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.

Beauty queens don't eat candy.

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.

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.

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