Beauty Queens
In chapter one, the girls experience a disastrous plane crash involving many casualties. Taylor, Miss Texas, immediately takes charge of the situation, rounding up all the other Pageant girls in sight. She takes action by proposing an idea to break off into two groups. One group is called The Sparkle Ponies, whose job is to tend to the wounded. The other group is called The Lost Girls, whose job is to search for other survivors. They go on there separate ways trying to help the situation as much as possible. This book has a main theme of you never know what challenges life may face you with each day and you have to learn to roll with the punches. Each and every day is a blessing and you cannot take anything for granted. You never know what could be your last day and many of the girls aboard the plane found out. None of them probably had the slightest bit of concern when they boarded the plane. It never crossed one of there minds that it could be there last day. Unfortunately, that's the uncertainty of life. Nothing is ever a definite and anything could go wrong at anytime. This was brought to many of the girls attention as they experienced there fellow Teen Dreamers, their friends, pass away before their eyes. The theme of making the best of every situation and staying positive also comes into play when they are stranded on this island with no means of communication. Many trembled in fear, but others rose to the occasion. None of the girls had ever had to fend for themselves before, let alone in the wilderness on an unknown island. Libba Bray takes you on an adventure along side the Teen Dreamers as they overcome their fears, bond with one another, and grow as a person. Over the course of the book each of the remaining Teen Dreamers develops as a person. They have a greater appreciation for life and others with experiencing so many others around them die and realize how easily it could have been them. They all put their differences aside and learn to work as a whole. Lastly, they learn survival skills as they have to preserve to stay alive.
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