Title: School of Charm
Description: After her beloved father's death in 1977, eleven-year-old tomboy Chip tries to fit with her family of beauty queens, making unlikely new friends at Miss Vernie's unusual charm school in Mt. Airy, North Carolina.
Subjects: Individuality, Families, NEW LIST 20140430, Juvenile fiction, Family life, Fiction, Self-perception, Race relations, Beauty contests, History, Children's fiction, Individuality, fiction, Self-perception, fiction, Family life, fiction, Beauty contests, fiction, Race relations, fiction, North carolina, fiction
Places: North Carolina
Time periods: 20th century