Canadian Children's Book Centre Our Choice, 2007

Hamilton Literary Awards Program, 2007 - Mixed Media Award for Young Adult Book

Beauty's back - with a bound!

Liz and her best friend Alicia are determined: this year, no boys! It doesn't take long, though, before Liz falls off the wagon She's irresistibly drawn to Kyle, and Kyle is drawn to Liz-dragged to her, actually, by Beauty Two, who is so glad to see her old friend that she starts to forget the finer points of her dog guide training Kyle doesn't care Every time he hears Liz's voice, he feels like he's flying

But the reasons for Kyle and Liz to stay away from each other just keep piling up Kyle's got a teacher with a grudge who's loading him down with work Liz's parents think she's too young, and sneaking around behind their backs certainly doesn't make her feel mature As for Beauty, she needs correction, or she'll be taken away; and that, Kyle just can't stand to think about Whatever happens, he knows his future depends on having Beauty by his side

The final book in the trilogy of Elizabeth and Beauty, her seeing eye dog, will have you in tears - of laughter and of pain

Conclusion to the Beauty trilogy

The other two books in the series have received rave reviews and awards

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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