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Piglettes

Clémentine Beauvais - Author

This is a cycling road-trip story about three schoolmates whose public journey brings friendship and national attention. Its plot combines social-media fame with self-acceptance and humour.

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A wickedly funny and life-affirming coming-of-age road trip story - winner of France's biggest prize for teen and YA fiction. Awarded the Gold, Silver and Bronze trotters after a vote by their classmates on Facebook, Mireille, Astrid and Hakima are officially the three ugliest girls in their school, but does that mean they're going to sit around crying about it? Well ... yes, a bit, but not for long! Climbing aboard their bikes, the trio set off on a summer road trip to Paris, their goal: a garden party with the French president. As news of their trip spreads they become stars of social media and television. With the eyes of the nation upon them the girls find fame, friendship and happiness, and still have time to consume an enormous amount of food along the way.

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Book Analysis

At a Glance

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Cycling· ExplainedFriendship· ExplainedSocial media· Explained

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Social conflict

Personalised Fit

Beyond the Cover

cyclingfriendshipsocial mediaappearanceschoolself-acceptance

Fiction

Themes in Context

A road-trip structure

Three schoolmates cycle to Paris, and their journey draws attention from social media and television.Exploratory / explanatory

How the book presents it: The road trip links the girls’ shared journey with changing public attention, while the story is presented as humorous and focused on friendship.

Talk about: How does the journey’s public attention affect the way the girls experience it?

Appearance and classmates’ judgement

A vote by classmates gives the three girls labels based on their appearance.Provisional reading

Talk about: How do the girls respond to the labels as the story continues?

Why It May Be Worth Reading

The story gives room to consider how classmates’ judgements about appearance can affect people, and how attention from a wider audience may change a journey.

What Deserves Attention

The classmates’ vote labels the girls the ugliest at school. The plot also includes public scrutiny and mentions the girls eating large amounts of food.

A Conversation Worth Having

If classmates’ judgements about appearance come up, what do you think helps someone decide whose opinions deserve weight?

Reading Approach

You could read together and pause when the story shifts from the girls’ school life to their public attention, checking how each change feels to your reader.

Confidence & Basis

Theme indicators describe how the book presents a topic; they are not a verdict on the whole book or your family's values. Confidence reflects how much book-specific material was checked. Only part of the book information was available, so some details remain unconfirmed.

What remains unconfirmed

A road-trip structure: The journey brings the girls into the public eye as they travel towards Paris.
Appearance and classmates’ judgement: The story’s starting situation centres on the classmates’ appearance-based vote.

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Limited information

Checked: 1 October 2026.

Relevant to: A road-trip structure; Appearance and classmates’ judgement

Piglettes by Clémentine Beauvais | Open Library