Representing Super Doll by Richard Peck
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(Hardcover - 1st ed.)
- Age Range: Young Adult
- Pub. Date: October 1974
- 192pp
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- Pub. Date: October 1974
- Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
- Format: Hardcover, 192pp
- Age Range: Young Adult
- ISBN-13: 9780670594924
- ISBN: 067059492X
- Edition Description: 1st ed.
Synopsis
Whenever teenage beauty Darlene Hoffmeister walked into a room, people tumed to stare and admire her. She always seemed to take it in stride. But when she is chosen to be Teen Super Doll and whisked away from her small town to New York City with her friend and companion, Verna, a startling change takes place.
Can Darlene's appearance make up for whatever else she lacks? Should levelheaded Verna cover up for her friend when the going gets tough? Not many girls can live a dream. If Darlene and Verna dare to, will their lives ever be the same?
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November 25, 2002: Verna Henderson gets an all paid trip to New York for the Super DollUSA,beauty contest.Only Verna isn't in the contest, she is going to chaperone over her friend Darlene who is also 16 years old.Vernais a little supprised that Darlene's mother picked her to go instead of one of her old friends.That isn't the main event in the story but, its a big part in the story. The big event in the story is that Verna goes to an in town highschool, and meets a group of girls that accepts her for for being a farm girl and not as preppy and girly as the rest of them, they still thinkthat she is cool to hang out with.Verna's family all think she turned from a tomboy to a prep from the time she started hanging out with that clique to thee time she came home from New York. The setting of the story was mainly at school, on the Farm ,and in New York. The time period was throughout the school year and half of summer break.Will Verna need an explanation for Darlene's mom ,or does darlene win the contest, to find out read representing super doll.
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