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Little white lies

2016
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.

Everyone loves Bacon

2015
"Everyone loves Bacon but letting his fame go to his head may prove more dangerous than he thought"--Provided by publisher.

Uncle Shelby's story of Lafcadio, the lion who shot back

2013
After leaving the jungle for the circus and a life of fame and wealth, a lion who taught himself to be the best shot in the world discovers he's not really a lion anymore, and not really a man, either.

How to be a hero

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.

The story of Owen

dragon slayer of Trondheim
2014
In an alternate world where industrialization has caused many species of carbon-eating dragons to thrive, Owen, a slayer being trained by his famous father and aunt, and Siobahn, his bard, face a dragon infestation near their small town in Canada.

Legends of Zita the spacegirl

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.

Extras

2011
Fifteen-year-old Aya Fuse, an Extra, just wants to lay low, so when she discovers the secret lives of the Sly Girls, she wants to report their story, but she knows that would propel her into a celebrity status she's not prepared for.

Starstruck

2012
Drama ensues when the girls discover they all have a crush on the same guy, and while Madison Parker is punished with community service hours for her admission to stealing, newcomer Kate Hayes is reveling in her song's overnight success, and aspiring actress Cameron Curtis struggles to step out from her famous mother's shadow.

Natural born celebrities

serial killers in American culture
2005
The author examines the history of serial killers and how they became famous including the infamous Jack the Ripper, the 1893 killing spree at the Chicago World's Fair by H.H. Holmes, Jeffrey Dahmer, Ted Bundy, and others.

The new guy (and other senior year distractions)

2016
Juggling the pressures of college applications and friendships, neurotic overachiever Jules's plans for her senior year are thrown off track when she starts dating the new guy at school and finds herself at the center of a rivalry between her high school's newspaper and its just-launched TV news show.

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