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Author
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Just as Zack Dylan on the verge of winning it all on the popular TV show Fifteen Minutes, his choices lead him to the brink of personal disaster. Meanwhile, a former Fifteen Minutes winner is searching for meaning amidst her own private losses. Can she warn Zack about the real price of fame? Or will Zack lose everything he loves for his fifteen minutes of glory?
22) Claim to fame
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Unabridged
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Lindsay, a former child star whose career ended when she developed the ability to hear what anyone, anywhere says about her and apparently suffered a nervous breakdown, comes to see this as an asset when, after her father's death, she learns that she is not alone.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Arden Maynor was just six years old when she was swept away while sleepwalking in a rainstorm. Fame as the survivor of Widow Hills undid her life, until she moved far away and changes her name. She begins to feel like she's being watched and, soon, her past comes back to haunt her.
Author
Series
Heidi Heckelbeck volume 25
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First Little Simon hardcover edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Brewster Elementary School is going to have its very own weekly news program, and both Heidi and her nemesis, Melanie Maplethorpe, want to be the star of the show"--
27) The chaos king
Author
Publisher
Eos
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Georgie and Bug, a year older, have been pulled apart by the demands of their newfound fame and fortune, but join forces again when a punk, vampires, a giant sloth, and other creatures come after them on the streets of a New York City of the future.
28) The daughters
Author
Series
Daughters (Joanna Philbin) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
In New York City, three fourteen-year-old best friends who are all daughters of celebrities watch out for each other as they try to strike a balance between ordinary high school events, such as finding a date for the homecoming dance, and family functions like walking the red carpet with their famous parents.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Young Readers Group
Pub. Date
2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
At fifteen, Joshua Blackbird becomes an international singing star but, as his hometown girlfriend relates, after more than a year, the pressures and dangers of fame take a toll and "Shu" disappears.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Meet the Weiss family, who are making their way in Hollywood rife with money, fame, envy, and relentless hauntings. Stafford Weiss is a famed TV self-help therapist with an A-list celebrity clientele. Meanwhile, Cristina Weiss has her work cut out managing the career of their disaffected child-star son, Benjie, a fresh graduate of rehab at age thirteen. Yet unbeknownst to them, another member of the Weiss family has arrived in town, mysteriously scarred...
Author
Series
Daughters (Joanna Philbin) volume 3
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Hudson is a gifted singer/songwriter like her mother, pop sensation Holla Jones, but while working on her debut album, Hudson struggles to convince her mother that she would rather stick with her own intimate style than follow her mother's path to fame.
32) A chorus rises
Author
Series
Song below water volume 2
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Formats
Description
Once Portland-famous and now infamous, seventeen-year-old Naema Bradshaw is an Eloko--a charismatic person gifted with a melody that people adore--who navigates a personal and public reckoning, confronts the limits of her priviledge, and discovers the nature of her Black girl magic.
33) The Truth app
Author
Series
Liars (Jack Heath) volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Australia
Pub. Date
2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
High schooler Jarli Durras becomes an overnight celebrity after creating an app that can tell when a person is lying, but his fame soon turns dangerous when a secret network of criminals adds Jarli to its hit list.
Author
Series
I funny volume 4
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Wheelchair-bound middle school student Jamie Grimm's recent victory in the Planet's Funniest Kid Comic Contest leads to a television sitcom based on his life, but being the star of the show forces him to balance his newfound success with the responsibilities of being a good friend.
35) Chasing ghosts
Publisher
Alchemy
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Lucas Simons, an eleven year-old filmmaker, is obsessed with death after the loss of his brother. When Lucas accidentally captures a mysterious presence in one of his films, he inadvertently becomes a YouTube phenomenon, and must learn to live life in the spotlight while also learning how to once again start living life to its fullest.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
The story of the five-day interview between Rolling Stone reporter David Lipsky and acclaimed novelist David Foster Wallace, right after the publication of Wallace's groundbreaking epic novel, 'Infinite jest.' Based on David Lipsky's critically-acclaimed memoir "Although of course you end up becoming yourself: a road trip with David Foster Wallace."
39) Shine
Author
Series
Shine (Jessica Jung) volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Rachel Kim confronts the dark underbelly of the K-pop world as she strives to become a K-pop star.
Six years ago Korean American Rachel Kim was recruited by DB Entertainment, one of Seoul's largest K-pop labels. The rules are simple: Train 24/7. Be perfect. Don't date. Now, as the dark scandals of an industry bent on controlling and commodifying beautiful girls begin to bubble up, Rachel wonders if she is strong enough to be a...
Author
Publisher
Soho Teen
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Having achieved fame and thousands of followers with her Tumblr expose of her brilliant-yet-clueless parents, a seventeen-year-old African American honors student tries to keep secret that her microblog is ghostwritten by a forty-one-year-old white man.
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