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{{quote| ''"You want to be chosen. You know you do. Don't lie, dahling [sic]. You lust to go to Modelland to become one of the only famous people in the world..."''}}
''Modelland'' <ref>pronounced exactly how it looks</ref> is the first in a planned trilogy of [[Young Adult]] novels written by former supermodel and ''[[
Tookie De La Crème isn't what you would call a conventional beauty: Her forehead is big, her hair is ratty, her body is gawky, and her eyes are [[Mismatched Eyes|two different colors]]. So naturally, she didn't expect to be picked to attend Modelland, an exclusive school on top of the [[World Tree|world mountain]] where the magical Intoxibellas, women who are a cross between a modern day supermodel and a sorcerer, are trained. It's an opportunity that every other girl in the world would kill for, and somehow, she and three other awkward looking girls have ended up there.
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* [[Parental Favoritism]]: Tookie's parents dote on her younger sister Myrracle so much that Tookie wears "hand-me-up" clothes from her sister.
* [[Purple Prose]]: Tyra loves her thesaurus.
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* [[Serious Business]]: The entire world revolves around Intoxibellas and, in the case of girls, trying to become one. Tied into that is the collecting of SMIZEs, fake eyebrow-like artifacts (one of which is featured on the cover) that increase a girl's chances of being picked for Modelland by 91%.
* [[Spork]]: [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/lb_i.php?lb_id=13173496870B00529600 Done here].
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