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"Jennette McCurdy was six years old when she had her first acting audition. Her mother's dream was for her only daughter to become a star, and Jeannette would do anything to make her mother happy. So she went along with what Mom called "calorie restriction," eating little and weighing herself five times a day. She endured extensive at-home makeovers while Mom chided, "Your eyelashes are invisible, okay? You think Dakota Fanning doesn’t tint hers?"...
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Universal
Pub. Date
[2017]
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An inspirational comedy about faith and forgiveness. Gavin Stone, a washed-up former child star is forced to do community service at a local mega-church and pretends to be Christian so he can land the part of Jesus in their annual passion play only to discover that the most important role of his life is far from Hollywood.
3) Tribute
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Cilla, a former child star who has found more satisfying work as a restorer of old houses, has come to her grandmother's Shenandoah Valley farmhouse, tools at her side, to rescue it from ruin. In the attic, she finds a cache of unsigned letters suggesting that her grandmother was pregnant when she died and that the father was a local married man. When Cilla becomes the target of a series of intimidating acts and a frightening, violent assault, her...
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Katie Kazoo switcheroo volume 10
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
c2003
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IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
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While a movie is being filmed in Cherrydale, Katie switches into Rosie Moran, a world renowned child actress.
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Paramount
Pub. Date
[2004], c2003
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Dickie Roberts is a former child actor who appeared on a hit television show. Now in his thirties, he can only find work as a parking valet and spends his free time with other formal child stars. Wanting to make a comeback, he manages to get an audition with director Rob Reiner. When the role requires him to be normal, he decides to hire a normal family for $20,000 in order to "research" the childhood he missed out on.
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Sourcebooks Young Readers, an imprint of Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
[2022]
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"Things are going great for Hayley on the set of the mystery show Sadie Solves It. But one day, things start disappearing from the studio--expensive jewelry used on the show, and even earrings from someone's purse! Who's the thief stalking Silver Screen Studios? Hayley doesn't want to get involved... after all, she only plays a detective on TV. But then one of the stolen items is found in her trailer, and her favorite makeup artist, Vee, is blamed...
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Hayley mysteries volume 1
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Sourcebooks Young Readers, an imprint of Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
©2022.
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IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 3
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" It's LA, she thinks--there are ghost stories everywhere! But to her surprise, strange things actually start happening as production ramps up. Lights flicker, cold blasts of air come out of nowhere, and one day the electricity is cut to the studio entirely with no clear cause. Can Hayley and her two best friends solve the mystery of the haunted studio...before it means curtains for their show?"--Amazon.
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Magic puppy volume 4
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
2009
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IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
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Acting in a film for the first time, Tessa is lonely until she meets a magic puppy who helps her make friends and meet her favorite actor.
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Walker
Pub. Date
1986
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Presents a brief history of the theatre and describes the necessary qualities, training, and experience needed by prospective actors and actresses, as well as various opportunities in the acting profession. Also profiles ten young performers describing the development of their careers.
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Paramount
Pub. Date
[2020]
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Jojo Siwa: my world: Live from backstage, social media sensation JoJo Siwa recounts all the events in her life that brought her to her biggest moment ever. A huge performance at the Mall of America and officially becoming a Nickelodeon star! Plus, crank up the tunes with the music videos for Kid in a Candy Store; and Hold the Drama!
Jojo Siwa: D.R.E.A.M. the concert experience: It's bow time! JoJo's bringing the D.R.E.A.M. Tour to her hometown of...
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Weinstein Books
Pub. Date
c2012
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When Melissa Francis was eight, she won the role of a lifetime: Cassandra Cooper Ingalls, the little girl who was adopted by the Ingalls family on the prime-time soap opera, Little House on the Prairie. Despite her age, she was already a veteran actress, moving from one Hollywood set to the next. But behind the scenes, her success was fueled by the pride, pressure, and sometimes grinding cruelty of her stage mother. While Melissa thrived under pressure,...
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
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Cilla McGowan is a former child star who buys her grandmother's farmhouse in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley to restore it from ruin. Her hope for serenity is soon shattered by haunting dreams of her famous grandmother who perished in the house thirty years before. She finds comfort in her neighbor, Ford Sawyer, who must protect her when the dark visions and family secrets spiral into a real-life nightmare.
17) Licorice pizza
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Universal
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The story of Alana Kane and Gary Valentine growing up, running around and going through the treacherous navigation of first love in the San Fernando Valley, 1973.
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