Ellie suffers from celebral palsy, which means she has plenty of issues with balance. She spends most of her time in a wheelchair, and that's just fine with her. Her mother has been dating Ellie's gym teacher, and now that they are getting married they will be heading off on their honeymoon, leaving Ellie to spend the summer with her estranged father.
Then her best friend Coralee decides to enter in a beauty pageant. Coralee's got it all. She's tall and pretty, she has an amazing voice, and she oozes confidence, all things that do not describe Ellie. She'd rather be home cooking or baking. But when the beauty pageant organizer notices Ellie and asks her to enter the pageant as well, Ellie is taken aback. Coralee supports her, and despite the fact that her mother would not approve, Ellie borrows the money from her grandmother and enters the pageant. Ellie's other best friend Bert agrees to serve as her manager and help her prepare.
The pageant's organizer clearly support Ellie's candidacy, and she never hesitates to put her front and center. But Ellie is not ready to march to the tune of someone else's drum. If she's going to do this pageant right, Ellie wants to figure out for herself what it means to be talented and beautiful.
A light read that takes the dive into the world of beauty pageants, but from the perspective of a differently abled individual, Time to Roll provides the valuable lesson that beauty is in the eye of the beholder!
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