About This Book:
Year Published:
2007
Publisher:
Price, Stern, & Sloan
Genre:
Family
Author:
Tracey West
Screenplay Writer:
Leslie Dixon
Type:
Young Adult Adaptation
Number of Pages:
126
Summary:
It's 1962 and Baltimore's Tracy Turnblad, a big girl with big hair and an even bigger personality, is ready for a change. When she wins a spot on the local TV dance program, The Corny Collins Show, she is transformed from social outcast to teen celebrity overnight. But can a newly trendy Tracy vanquish The Corny Collins Show's reigning starlet, win the heart of her crush, Link Larkin, and racially integrate a television show without denting her 'do? Only in Hairspray!