What do you get when you cross America's Next Top Model with Lost? A brilliantly funny novel by the queen of teen satire, Libba Bray.
Teen beauty queens. A lost island. Mysteries and dangers. No access to email. And the spirit of fierce, feral competition that lives deep in the heart of every girl, a savage brutality that can only be revealed by a journey into the heart of non-exfoliated darkness. Oh, the horror, the horror! Only funnier. With evening gowns. And a body count. Join Libba Bray in this wicked satire of beauty pageants, reality TV and teen pop culture.
Libba Bray is the author of the New York Times bestselling Gemma Doyle Trilogy, which comprises the novels A Great and Terrible Beauty, Rebel Angels, and The Sweet Far Thing. In 2010 she was awarded the Michael L. Printz award for her satirical road-trip novel Going Bovine. She has written short stories about everything from Cheap Trick concerts to The Rocky Horror Picture Show devotees to meeting Satan worshippers on summer vacation. Libba lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband, son, and two cats. Her dream is to stop sucking so badly at drums in Rock Band. You may visit her at libbabray.com and you don't even have to call first.
Gift Ideas for Teens: Comic Novels
Will Grayson, Will Grayson
$19.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing
Will Grayson:
What if your oldest, wildest, only best friend started writing a musical about your life...and it made you look like a joke?
What if the girl you didn't think you were interested in started being interested... Buy or find out more →
A Pocketful Of Eyes
$17.99 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
When a dead body is discovered at the Museum, Beatrice May Ross is determined to use her sleuthing skills to solve the case. Sharp, sassy YA crime-fiction, with a dash of romance and a splash of funny.
Bee is in her elem... Buy or find out more →
Withering Tights
$14.99 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
Hilarious new series from Queen of Teen – laugh your tights off at the (VERY) amateur dramatic antics of Talullah and her bonkers mates. Boys, snogging and bad acting guaranteed!
Picture the scene: Dother Hall performi... Buy or find out more →
The Absolutely True Diary Of A Part-Time Indian
$12.95 – Paperback book / Andersen Press
In his first book for young adults, bestselling author Sherman Alexie tells the story of Junior, a budding cartoonist who leaves his school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white high school. This heart... Buy or find out more →
The Life Of A Teenage Body-Snatcher
$17.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
Thomas Timewell is sixteen and a gentleman. When he meets a body-snatcher called Plenitude, his whole life changes. He is pursued by cutthroats, a gypsy with a meat cleaver, and even the Grim Reaper. More disturbing stil... Buy or find out more →
Beauty Queens
$22.99 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
What do you get when you cross America's Next Top Model with Lost? A brilliantly funny novel by the queen of teen satire, Libba Bray.
Teen beauty queens. A lost island. Mysteries and dangers. No access to email. And the ... Buy or find out more →
