Beauty Queens Themes

When the boys in Lord of the Flies (i.e. the other book where children are shipwrecked on an island) are left together, they form gangs and kill off the loners. But when the teen beauty queens...

You don't get more isolated than a (seemingly) uninhabited island. But that might be just what the Teen Dream contestants in this book need. See, the island is such a stark contrast to what our pag...

Some satires are more mocking than funny. Beauty Queens does not fall into that category. It's never cruel to its main characters, and yet there are so many amazing lines poking humor at the situat...

At least half the sentences in this book say something about gender. Particularly, what it's like to be a girl, and what is expected of girls. As supposed models of traditional girlhood, most of th...

Who am I? It's a question that most teenagers ask themselves at some point. So it should be no surprise that this question comes up for the teenage girls in this story, especially since basically e...

There are only two non-white Miss Teen Dream contestants: Shanti and Nicole. You might think that would bond them, but actually, it does the opposite. Shanti sees Nicole as her competition, because...

You may know the stereotype about beauty pageant girls: that they're airheads. In the beginning of the book, Tiara definitely fits this description. But since these supposed airheads have to surviv...

When lust first appears in this book, the girls know that they aren't supposed to feel it. Or if they feel it, they shouldn't show it. Adina doesn't want to feel lust at all, because she's scared o...