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Taking A Look At Libba Bray
Libba Bray is originally from Texas but her home is in Brooklyn, New York with her husband , son and two cats. Libba Bray is the New York Times bestselling author of The Gemma Doyle trilogy ( A Great and Terrible Beauty, Rebel Angels, and The Sweet Far Thing): she also won the Michael L. Printz Award-winning for her book Going Bovine, Beauty Queens. Libba Bray was a L.A. Times Book Prize finalist; for her book series, The Diviners. In Beauty Queens, one of Bray main characters is named Miss Taylor and this young lady was from Texas as well, she kind of portrayed her in the story as where she is from. Three weeks before her graduation of high school, she had gotten into a serious car accident, which she had lost her left eye and had demolished her face. According to Libba Bray writing saved her life from loneliness and depression after the accident. In Beauty Queens, Bray set the scene on a deserted island that the girls had crashed on to by a plane and are feeling trapped and alone with no help.

Bray reader level is at a young adult level. All of her books are mostly about survival, a lot of endurance and is passionate about what she writes about. Bray books main
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Towards the end Libba Bray has the girls come together as a team to escape the Corporation which they are the ones ,who planned the crash just for their hit tv show. The girls finally overcame their judgemental and selfish ways to escape on a boat full of pirates, so that they will be free of their old ways. “ We’ve made it this for, haven’t we? Don’t count a pageant girl out, Miss Mississippi.”(page 327) Libba Bray shows that in this society that everyone cares for each other, but in the real world that not an

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