Bringing Up Beauty
- Publisher
- Fitzhenry and Whiteside
- Initial publish date
- Sep 1999
- Category
- Dogs, Adolescence
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781554559817
- Publish Date
- Sep 1999
- List Price
- $11.99
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780773674790
- Publish Date
- Sep 1999
- List Price
- $6.99
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Recommended Age, Grade, and Reading Levels
- Age: 11 to 15
- Grade: 6 to 10
Description
As if bathtub floods, chewed homework, and accidents on the floor weren't enough! Being saddled with so much responsibility for bringing up Beauty only adds insult to injury With a flapjack tongue and oversized feet, this is the ugliest puppy Elizabeth has ever seen It will be easy to resist loving her And since Beauty is only staying until she can be trained as a guide dog, there is no room for love in this relationship
At the age of twelve, with busy parents, a sister who's too cool for words, and two best friends suddenly dating each other, Elizabeth could use a little unconditional love
About the author
Sylvia McNicoll wrote her first book, Blueberries and Whipped Cream, as a project for a college writing course in order to explore a tragedy that occurred in her own high school. She went on to teach creative writing at that same college for nine years, edit a parenting magazine for another eight years and write 29 more novels for a variety of age groups.
Most acclaimed are her three dog guide fostering stories: Bringing Up Beauty, Beauty Returns and A Different Kind of Beauty, which won and were nominated for many children's choice awards. Last Chance for Paris, her adventure book set on the ice fields of Columbia, explored ecological issues with glaciers before climate warming became a popular issue.
Her recent novel, Crush. Candy. Corpse, tells the story about a teen on trial for the manslaughter of an Alzheimer's patient. Reviewers and bloggers have declared it a must read for all high school students. In her thirtieth book Death Goes Viral, already a blockbuster hit in Norway, Sweden and Finland, Sylvia returns to the theme of life and death and the values our own mortality inspires in us.
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