Yesterday's Young Adult Novels: Beth Hilton: Model (1961)
New Jersey girl Beth is 17 when the painful comparisons to her cousin Lissa, a model since childhood, and an unfortunate experience in a school fashion show prompt her to enroll in charm school. … She scrapes her way into the Queen’s Agency and, upon graduation from high school, enters the world of modeling in New York City. During the fifty-three minutes she had spent before Alex Turner’s camera, she had eaten a bite out of seventeen generously spread peanut-butter … …
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Yesterday's Young Adult Novels: Beth Hilton: Model (1961)





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