fame

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fame

Joshua Dread: The nameless hero

2013
Joshua Dread accepts an invitation to Gyfted & Talented, a summer program for children with superpowers, but he and his friends have been chosen to form the greatest superhero team of all time, and their newfound fame could mean big trouble with Joshua's supervillain parents.

Starstruck

2013
Set in 1930's Old Hollywood, this story follows the lives of three teen girls as they live, love, and claw their way to the top in a world where being a star is all that matters.

Sara's face

2008
Seventeen-year-old Sara wants so much to be famous that when a legendary, plastic-surgery-addicted rock star offers to take her under his wing and pay for her to have surgery too, she jumps at the chance despite her misgivings.

John Lennon imagined

cultural history of a rock star
2004

Popular vote

2008
In an election year, sixteen-year-old Erin Bright sets aside her familiar supporting role as daughter of the mayor and girlfriend of the student body president to stand up for what she believes in and protect an historic park from being replaced by a gas station.

Tempo change

2009
No one knows that teenager Blanche Kelly is the daughter of an indie rock icon because he left their family when she was young. When Blanche and her successful all-girl band enter a prominent music competition, Blanche invites her father to hear them play. Suddenly everything Blanche believes about family, talent, and living out your dreams changes.

Girl in the arena

a novel containing intense prolonged sequences of disaster and peril
2010
In Massachusetts, eighteen-year-old Lyn, who has grown up in the public eye as the daughter of seven gladiators, wants nothing less than to follow her mother's path, but her only way of avoiding marriage to the warrior who killed her last stepfather may be to face him in the arena.

So super starry

2004
Fifteen-year-old Octavia Clairbrook-Cleeve, the daughter of a famous television actress and a respected film and theater director, feels out of place amidst the glamour, wealth, and high society that surround her, and when she begins dating a rich and handsome older boy, her doubts about this lifestyle become impossible to ignore.

Little Miss Star

1999
Little Miss Star finds a way to fulfill her dreams of being famous.

The top ten ways to ruin the first day of school

2004
Follows the humorous attempts of fifth grader Anthony "TB" Madison to become a guest on his favorite television show, "The Late Show with David Letterman.".

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