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1) Followers
Author
Description
Orla Cadden is a budding novelist stuck in a dead-end job, writing clickbait about movie-star hookups and influencer yoga moves. Then Orla meets Floss--a striving, wannabe A-lister--who comes up with a plan for launching them both into the high-profile lives they dream about. So what if Orla and Floss's methods are a little shady--and sometimes people get hurt? Their legions of followers can't be wrong. Thirty-five years later, in a closed California...
2) Extras
Author
Series
Uglies volume 4
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
Description
After rebel Tally Youngblood brings down the uglies/pretties/specials regime, fame, instead of beauty, becomes the new world order, and fifteen-year-old Aya Fuse embarks on a dangerous plan to boost her popularity ranking.
Author
Publisher
Ecco
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
"Handsome Eddie Hartley was once a golden boy poised for the kind of success promised by good looks and a modicum of talent. Now thirty-three, he has abandoned his dream of an acting career and accepted the reality of life as a drama teacher at the boys' prep school he once attended. But when Eddie and his wife, Susan, discover they cannot have children, it's one disappointment too many. Weighted down with debt, Susan's mounting unhappiness, and his...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 16
Description
"In his much-anticipated debut novel, Hank Green--cocreator of Crash Course, Vlogbrothers, and SciShow--spins a sweeping, cinematic tale about a young woman who becomes an overnight celebrity before realizing she's part of something bigger, and stranger, than anyone could have possibly imagined. The Carls just appeared. Coming home from work at three a.m., twenty-three-year-old April May stumbles across a giant sculpture. Delighted by its appearance...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 14
Description
Zack Dylan made a promise to God and his college sweetheart as he left his family's horse farm in Kentucky to compete on the popular reality television show Fifteen Minutes: If he makes it, the fame won't change him. Overnight, Zack is the nation's most popular contestant, a country singer with the looks and voice of a young Elvis. As his star rises, Zack is asked to compromise and quiet his beliefs, and also something more. Just as America is falling...
Author
Description
To those who matter in 1950s Hollywood, Lena Scott is the hottest rising star to hit the silver screen since Marilyn Monroe. Few know her real name is Abra. Even fewer know the price she's paid to finally feel like she's somebody. To Pastor Ezekiel Freeman, Abra will always be the little girl who stole his heart the night he found her, a wailing newborn abandoned under a bridge on the outskirts of Haven. Zeke and his son, Joshua -- Abra's closest...
10) Rock star
Author
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
c1988
Description
FEEL THE HUNGER. THE BEAT. THE HEAT. THE SEX AND DRUGS. Rock Star International bestselling sensation Jackie Collins, "the queen of glamour fiction" (San Antonio Express-News) captures the raw, electric thrill of life in the spotlight in this pulse-pounding novel. Three talented, ambitious dreamers have struggled for super-stardom - and lived hard and fast in a mind-bending whirl of parties, drugs, and sex. Now their fates collide at the plush Los...
11) Audrey, wait!
Author
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
Description
While trying to score a date with her cute co-worker at the Scooper Dooper, sixteen-year-old Audrey gains unwanted fame and celebrity status when her ex-boyfriend, a rock musician, records a breakup song about her that soars to the top of the Billboard charts.
12) Little Miss Star
Author
Publisher
Rourke Enterprises
Pub. Date
1985
Description
Little Miss Star finds a way to fulfill her dream of being famous.
Author
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
Judy Moody volume no. 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
When a third grade classmate gets her picture in the paper for winning a spelling bee, Judy is determined to find a way to become famous herself.
16) Malibu rising
Author
Description
"Set against the backdrop of the Malibu surf culture of the 1980s this novel follows the daughter of a famous singer who, once she finds fame, must grapple with the fact that her father abandoned her and her siblings when they were young"--
August 1983. Everyone wants to be around the famous Rivas: Nina, talented surfer and supermodel; brothers Jay and Hud, one a championship surfer, the other a renowned photographer; and their baby sister, Kit....
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"From the creator of @Deuxmoi, the popular--and infamous--celebrity gossip Instagram, comes a fun and charming debut novel about a stylist assistant whose drunken decision to turn her Instagram into a celeb gossip account turns her life completely upside down"--
18) Flop to the top!
Author
Series
Publisher
TOON Books, an imprint of RAW Junior
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Wanda's plan to make herself famous backfires when her floppy-faced dog starts drawing all the attention"--
19) How to be a hero
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Gideon is a little boy who wants to be a hero and get his picture in the paper--but first he has to figure out just what a hero is.
Author
Series
Marc Brown Arthur chapter book volume 19
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
When Buster rescues a cat stuck in a tree he is treated like a hero, but when he begins to enjoy his celebrity a little too much, his friends devise a plan to bring him back to his old self.
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