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A Different Kind of Beauty

by (author) Sylvia McNicoll

Publisher
Fitzhenry and Whiteside
Initial publish date
Nov 2003
Category
General, Dogs
Recommended Age
11 to 15
Recommended Grade
6 to 10
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781550050608
    Publish Date
    Nov 2003
    List Price
    $11.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781554559855
    Publish Date
    Sep 2011
    List Price
    $11.99

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A Canadian Children's Book Centre Our Choice, 2005

Manitoba Young Reads' Choice Award Nominee 2005

Red Maple Book Award nominee 2005

Second of the Bringing Up Beauty triology!

Bringing Up Beauty won the 1996 Silver Birch Children's Choice Award and the 1997 Manitoba Young Reader's Choice Award

In Bringing Up Beauty, Elizabeth had her heart broken over the lab puppy she raised for - and returned to - a guide dog program In A Different Kind of Beauty, she's trying again But this time, she vows, she won't fall in love She'll have fun, sure, but she won't surrender to those big soulful eyes and goofy puppy love Hmmm is it Beauty II she's resisting, or Scott, the "former" boyfriend who just keeps hanging around?

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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