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41) Siren queen
Author
Language
English
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Description
"It was magic. In every world, it was a kind of magic. "No maids, no funny talking, no fainting flowers." Luli Wei is beautiful, talented, and desperate to be a star. Coming of age in pre-Code Hollywood, she knows how dangerous the movie business is and how limited the roles are for a Chinese American girl from Hungarian Hill-but she doesn't care. She'd rather play a monster than a maid. But in Luli's world, the worst monsters in Hollywood are not...
Author
Publisher
Soho Press, Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
An uncanny and electric story collection from SJ Sindu, Lambda Literary finalist and Publishing Triangle Edmund White Debut Fiction Award-winning author of Blue-Skinned Gods. In "Dark Academia and the Lesbian Masterdoc," a millennial English professor facing mounting personal crises puts her energies into TikTok, but her newfound viral fame could wreck her already unstable life. In "Patriots' Day," a man trying to leave his marriage for the woman...
43) Kiss & tell
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
On boy band Kiss & Tell's first major tour, lead singer Hunter Drake grapples with a painful breakup with his first boyfriend, his first rebound, and the stress of what it means to be queer in the public eye.
44) Love, Pamela
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Description
"Pamela Anderson's blond bombshell image was ubiquitous in the 1990s. Discovered in the stands during a Canadian football game, she was immediately rocket launched into fame, becoming Playboy's favorite cover girl and an emblem of Hollywood glamour and sexuality. Yet the Pamela Anderson we think we know was created through happenstance rather than careful cultivation. Love, Pamela brings forth her true story, that of a small-town girl getting tangled...
Author
Series
Bigfoot and Nessie volume 1
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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.
Author
Series
Zita the spacegirl volume 2
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
250L
Language
English
Description
Zita is determined to find her way home to Earth, but her exploits have made her an intergalactic megastar, and as her true self is eclipsed by her public persona, she faces a robot doppelganger, unsure of who she can trust.
Author
Publisher
Amazon Crossing
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
A catastrophic disaster in China triggers a mother's heartbreaking choice and a daughter's reconciliation with the past in a powerful novel by the author of A Single Swallow and Where Waters Meet. In the summer of 1976, an earthquake swallows up the city of Tangshan, China. Among the hundreds of thousands of people scrambling for survival is a mother who makes an agonizing decision that irrevocably changes her life and the lives of her children. In...
Author
Series
I funny volume 3
Pub. Date
2015.
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 and pressure are all about.
51) Shine
Author
Series
Shine (Jessica Jung) volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
2020.
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
Series
Publisher
Henry Holt Books and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
In her second year at Arcanum Training Institute, Ella grapples with fame, unearths a perilous school secret, and faces a mysterious magical illness outbreak, prompting her, alongside Brigit and Jason, to clear her name, while working tirelessly to safeguard the Marvellian realm from impending chaos.
Author
Publisher
IG Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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"In a small Virginia town in 1971, a high school football star runs out on his pregnant girlfriend. Six years later, that child meets his father for the first time and discovers the athlete within. Before long he is on the fast-track to the NFL, coached by a relentless Vietnam veteran uncle, nourished by a patient working mom, and defended by an ambitious girlfriend, all of whom tie their own hopes to his career. When he finally makes it, as Mitch...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Told in rhyming text, Thelma is a pony who created a big splash when she dressed up and posed as a unicorn, but she returned to her best friend Otis the donkey when fame proved to be stressful; now her many fans want her back, and Thelma is reluctant--until Otis agrees to go along as her manager and backup, so she can concentrate on being awesome.
56) The rose
Series
Criterion collection volume 757
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Rose is one of the biggest rock stars on the planet. Her life of constant sex, drugs and rock and roll, along with constant touring, prove to be too much to handle. Nominated for four Academy Awards.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Brent Spiner's explosive and hilarious novel is a personal look at the slightly askew relationship between a celebrity and his fans. If the Coen Brothers were to make a Star Trek movie, involving the complexity of fan obsession and sci-fi, this noir comedy might just be the one. Set in 1991, just as Star Trek: The Next Generation has rocketed the cast to global fame, the young and impressionable actor Brent Spiner receives a mysterious package and...
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
580L
Language
English
Description
"When musical prodigy, Elvis Ruby, completely freezes up on television, he is forced to hide out in the Pinelands of New Jersey and try to find his way back to the music once again with the help of a new friend"--
59) 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 privilege, and discovers the nature of her Black girl magic.
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"Lacey Barnes always dreamed of being an actress, and get an opportunity to star in a movie during her senior year. But life in the spotlight isn't as picture perfect as Lacey imagined. She has trouble bonding with her costars, her father hires Donavan Lake to tutor her, somewhere along the way she loses her acting mojo. And it looks like someone on set is deliberately trying to sabotage her. It seems the only person she can count on is Donavan--even...
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