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Ellie is so not the pageant type. They're Coralee's thing, and Ellie is happy to let her talented friend shine in the spotlight. But what's she supposed to do when Coralee asks her to enter a beauty pageant, and their other best friend, Bert, volunteers to be their manager? Then again, how else is she going to get through this summer with her dad, who barely knows her, while her mom is off on her honeymoon with Ellie's amazing gym teacher? Ellie decides she has nothing to lose.
There's only one problem: the director of the pageant seems determined to put Ellie and her wheelchair front and center. So it's up to Ellie to figure out a way to do it on her own terms and make sure her friendships don't fall apart along the way. Through it all, from thrift store deep dives to disastrous dance routines, she begins to form her own definition of beauty and what it means to really be seen.
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- ISBN: 9781665918619
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- ISBN: 9781665918619
- File size: 4037 KB
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- English
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Levels
- ATOS Level: 4.9
- Lexile® Measure: 750
- Interest Level: 4-8(MG)
- Text Difficulty: 3
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March 15, 2023
A girl with cerebral palsy finds herself in the spotlight. A year after the events of Roll With It (2019), aspiring baker Ellie Cowan's adventures resume just as her mom is marrying Hutch, her gym teacher. Unfortunately, while Mom and Hutch are honeymooning, Ellie will be stuck with her father, rowdy younger stepbrothers, and stepmother for a month. Her father feels like a stranger; he never knows how to act around her or her wheelchair. So when her outspoken best friend Coralee recruits Ellie and her other best friend, �ber-organized Bert, to help her compete in the Oklahoma Little Miss Boots and Bows pageant, Ellie welcomes the distraction. When Coralee begs Ellie to enter as well, Ellie acquiesces despite her distaste for pageants...and to spite her father, who thinks she can't handle it. But when the pageant's coordinator patronizingly fawns over Ellie, Coralee grows jealous. How can Ellie salvage their friendship? Despite some poignant moments and a realistically messy portrayal of family and friendship, this outing feels somewhat rushed. Readers scarcely have time to process some plot threads--including painful revelations--before Sumner wraps them up, and secondary characters, like fellow competitor Maya, feel somewhat underdeveloped. However, Bert remains endearing, and it's heartening to see Ellie establishing boundaries with the occasionally overbearing Coralee. Ellie, her family, and most of her friends read White; Maya is Black. Sweet but uneven. (Fiction. 8-12)COPYRIGHT(2023) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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