Not Just Another Pretty Face

by Peter Filichia

Tired of beautiful girls with no personality, Bill Richards and his friends on the school paper decide to hold an "inner beauty" contest and meet many wonderful girls they had never noticed, including Mary Mulcahy.

Genres: Young Adult

160 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1988

About the author

Peter Filichia is the critic for the Star-Ledger and News 12 New Jersey. Each week, he writes a column for MasterworksBroadway.com and three columns for TheaterMania.com. He is a past president of the Drama Desk, the current president of the Theatre World Awards, and the author of Let's Put on a Musical!"

Reviews

[Josie]

I found the pacing really slow in this one and wasn't quite buying into the plot. This was a DNF for me.

[Erica Leigh · Rating 1 out of 5]

A conflict-less story about inner beauty that someone manages to be both vapid and boring and unrealistic somehow. Reminds me of Saved By the Bell in that the characters don’t feel like real teens, and the dialogue feels forced