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Reviewed on December 1, 1998
Gr 9-Up In a modern fairy-tale world of teen-model Princesses, movie-star Prince Charmings, and adult Giants, a tiny fairyperson named Mab appears to a sad little girl who is being consumed by her mother's ambitions. Will Barbie (named for the doll) escape the voracious commercial world of beauty pageants and modeling? Can she survive the glitzy wilderness of the Los Angeles drugs-sex-money-and-fame scene to find true love and, more importantly, herself? Or will her mother's fixation on transforming Barbie into a supermodel destroy...Log In or Sign Up to Read More