Catalog Search Results
Author
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Description
"Malibu: August 1983. It’s the day of Nina Riva’s annual end-of-summer party, and anticipation is at a fever pitch. Everyone wants to be around the famous Rivas: Nina, the talented surfer and supermodel; brothers Jay and Hud, one a championship surfer, the other a renowned photographer; and their adored baby sister, Kit. Together the siblings are a source of fascination in Malibu and the world over—especially as the offspring of the legendary...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A seductive, unputdownable psychodrama following one brilliant, ruthless man who will stop at nothing in his pursuit of success. Maurice Swift is handsome, charming, and hungry for fame. The one thing he doesnt have is talent but hes not about to let a detail like that stand in his way. After all, a would-be writer can find stories anywhere. They dont need to be his own. Working as a waiter in a West Berlin hotel in 1988, Maurice engineers the perfect...
Author
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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.
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Fleeing her family home in Wisconsin in the wake of a tragedy that compels her to pursue her acting career in golden-age Hollywood, Elsa enjoys the heady extravagances of her fame while struggling to remain true to herself and balance the needs of her family.
Author
Series
Wink books (J.C. Phillipps) volume 2
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Wink loves being the most famous ninja in Japan but when he needs a nap his fans will not leave him alone, and so he seeks guidance from his former teacher, Master Zutsu.
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Suzanne Redfearn delivers another gripping page-turner in her latest novel, a story about a young mother's fight to protect her children from the dangerous world of Hollywood. Faye Martin never expected her husband to abandon her and her three children...or that she'd have to struggle every day to make ends meet. So when her four-year-old daughter is discovered through a YouTube video and offered a starring role on a television series, it seems...
Author
Series
Classroom 13 volume 3
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
For fans of Captain Underpants or Sideways Stories from Wayside School, this new chapter book series is perfect for reluctant readers. When famous agent Lucy LaRoux drops by Classroom 13, she makes an offer no one can refuse--she makes all of the students FAMOUS. You might think this was sweet, but it was not. It was selfish. (Lucy wants their money.) With great fame comes frightening stage fright, broken bones, rotten reality television, and other...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
As the Planet's Funniest Kid Comic finals near, Jamie faces a whirlwind of attention at school and in the media and the fame starts to go to his head, but in Hollywood with Uncle Frankie, some of his fellow comedians quickly show him what competition andpressure are all about.
"In the third episode of James Patterson's bestselling series, Jamie Grimm is one step closer to becoming the best kid comic in the world, but now he's facing his biggest challenge...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
In 2029, hoping to bypass the exams and training that might lead to a comfortable life, Susan, her almost-boyfriend Derlock, and seven fellow students stow away on a ship to Mars, unaware that Derlock is a sociopath with bigger plans.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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. When Cricket Lopez, assistant to one of the most notorious celebrity stylists, revamps her old fashion Instagram account and turns it into a source for celebrity gossip on...
11) How to be famous
Author
Publisher
Gecko Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Take a trip through the zoo with this irrepressible pigeon, as she preens and poses alongside all the animals, right up to the sharp teeth of a grumpy lion ...
13) Specials
Author
Series
Uglies volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Tally has been transformed into one of the Specials whose mission it is to suppress the uglies and keep the Pretties stupid.
When she is turned into a super-modelesque super-fighting machine, Tally, a former ugly, is ordered to keep the uglies down and the pretties stupid in a carefully engineered world of perfection where she refuses to play by the rules.
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Moving to Hollywood with his academic parents, eleven-year-old Mitch feels like an outsider in his school where everyone has connections to the powerful and famous in the entertainment industry, until he is cast in a soda commercial that launches a popular catchphrase.
15) Zeroboxer
Author
Publisher
Flux
Pub. Date
c2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
"As seventeen-year-old Carr 'the Raptor' Luka rises to fame in the weightless combat sport of zeroboxing, he learns a devastating secret that jeopardizes not only his future in the sport, but interplanetary relations"--
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Instead of going to prom, seventeen-year-old Elena Soo wants to spend her time saving the local community center, and she is determined to keep her priorities straight even when her childhood best friend--who is now a K-pop superstar--returns to make good on their old pact to go to prom together.
Author
Publisher
HarperTempest
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Ruby feels her life is over when she learns that her parents are splitting up at the same time she is hearing rumors that she will be fired soon from the television soap opera she has worked on since age six.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
The New York Times bestselling author of Tell Me Three Things and What to Say Next delivers a poignant and hopeful novel about resilience and reinvention, first love and lifelong friendship, the legacies of loss, and the stories we tell ourselves in order to survive. Sometimes looking to the past helps you find your future. Abbi Hope Goldstein is like every other teenager, with a few smallish exceptions: her famous alter ego, Baby Hope, is the subject...
Author
Series
Bigfoot and Nessie volume 1
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Bigfoot is the only one in his family who does not like having the spotlight on him, and finds a friend in Nessie who is equally desperate to get away from all the cameras.
"Introducing a hilarious and heartfelt graphic novel in which an unlikely pair of cryptids--one a Bigfoot whose failure to get himself photographed disappoints his family, and the other a Loch Ness Monster, who seems unable to escape the spotlight wherever she goes--meet up and...
Author
Publisher
Dial Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
When her best friend comes out as a lesbian, Daisy leads the charge to end their school's ban on same-sex dates for the homecoming dance, but a local story goes viral and now everyone--including a cute college journalist--believes Daisy is gay, too.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request