title: Poppy the Pageant Princess
author: Brittanee Tomkow
description: Brittanee Tomkow is a pageant coach and the founder of Brittanee's Beauties - Canadian Pageant Coaching, which is the first pageant coaching company in Alberta, Canada. She believes in teaching girls to let their inner sparkle shine. This is her first book in The Pageant Press childrens series.
zlib_text: About the Book
  
  From the bestselling author of _The Kitchen Maid_
  
  Poppy Mazzini, born in Hull over her father’s grocery shop, lives up to the
  promise of her fiery red hair and Italian ancestry. Her lovely singing voice
  and good looks lead her to her great ambition – to go on the stage and see her
  name top of the bill. She becomes a music hall star both in her native town
  and in the south, after an appearance in the theatre at Brighton – she even
  performs in Paris, to tremendous acclaim.
  
  But when her first love, an ambitious shoemaker in her home town, becomes
  engaged to someone else Poppy is devastated. She disappears, believing that
  she will never return to her life of stardom. But her fame cannot be kept a
  secret...
  
  By the winner of the Catherine Cookson Prize for fiction.
  
  Contents
  
  Cover
  
  About the Book
  
  Title Page
  
  Dedication
  
  Acknowledgements
  
  Chapter One
  
  Chapter Two
  
  Chapter Three
  
  Chapter Four
  
  Chapter Five
  
  Chapter Six
  
  Chapter Seven
  
  Chapter Eight
  
  Chapter Nine
  
  Chapter T