Sarah Mlynowski is the author of the Magic in Manhattan series, Gimme a Call, and a bunch of other books for tweens, teens, and grown-ups. Originally from Montreal, Sarah now lives in the kingdom of Manhattan with her very own prince charming and their fairy tale–loving daughters. Visit Sarah online at www.sarahm.com and find her on Instagram and Twitter @sarahmlynowski.

Read all the Whatever After books!

#1: Fairest of All

#2: If the Shoe Fits

#3: Sink or Swim

#4: Dream On

#5: Bad Hair Day

#6: Cold as Ice

#7: Beauty Queen

#8: Once Upon a Frog

Copyright

Copyright © 2015 by Sarah Mlynowski

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Mlynowski, Sarah, author.

Beauty queen / Sarah Mlynowski. — First edition.

pages cm. — (Whatever after ; 7)

Summary: Abby’s first problem is that Jonah has lost all his memories of the magic mirror and their adventures, so when they get sucked through into Beauty and the Beast, he is unaware of the danger, and picks one of the Beast’s roses—her second problem is locating Beauty and performing a match-making miracle in order to recover her brother, and still make it back to the real world before their parents miss them.

ISBN 978-0-545-74654-0 (jacketed hardcover) 1. Beauty and the beast (Tale)—Juvenile fiction. 2. Fairy tales—Adaptations—Juvenile fiction. 3. Magic mirrors—Juvenile fiction. 4. Brothers and sisters—Juvenile fiction. 5. Amnesia—Juvenile fiction. [1. Characters in literature—Fiction. 2. Fairy tales—Fiction. 3. Magic—Fiction. 4. Brothers and sisters—Fiction. 5. Amnesia—Fiction.] I. Title. II. Series: Mlynowski, Sarah. Whatever after ; 7.

PZ7.M7135Be 2015

813.6—dc23

[Fic]

2014049329

First edition, May 2015

Author photo by Heather Waraksa

Cover design by Elizabeth B. Parisi

Cover illustration © 2015 by Helen Huang

e-ISBN 978-0-545-74656-4

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