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2022.
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English
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"A heartbreaking and hilarious memoir by iCarly and Sam & Cat star Jennette McCurdy about her struggles as a former child actor--including eating disorders, addiction, and a complicated relationship with her overbearing mother--and how she retook control of her life."--Amazon.
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English
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"We Were Dreamers is the superhero origin story of Simu Liu, Marvel Cinematic Universe's first leading Asian superhero, who grew up torn between China and Canada, until he found the courage to dream like his parents before him. Witty, honest, inspiring and relatable, We Were Dreamers weaves together the narratives of two generations in a Chinese immigrant family who are inextricably tied to one another even as they are torn apart by deep cultural...
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Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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Mills was still a preteen when she began her acting career and was quickly thrust into the spotlight. Under the wing of Walt Disney himself, Mills was transformed into one of the biggest child starlets of the 1960s through iconic roles in both British and American films. She became one of only twelve actors in history to be bestowed with the Academy Juvenile Award. In her memoir, Mills provides a unique window into when Hollywood was still Tinseltown...
5) Tribute
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English
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Cilla, a former child star who has found more satisfying work as a restorer of old houses, has come to her grandmother's Shenandoah Valley farmhouse, tools at her side, to rescue it from ruin. In the attic, she finds a cache of unsigned letters suggesting that her grandmother was pregnant when she died and that the father was a local married man. When Cilla becomes the target of a series of intimidating acts and a frightening, violent assault, her...
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Starring Jules volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
c2013
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IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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Jules is an ordinary seven-year-old girl, concerned with school and friends and other ordinary things--until a chance meeting with a casting director leads to an audition for a television commercial.
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Simon & Schuster Book for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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Sixteen-year-old Lindsay, a former child star whose career ended when she developed the ability to hear what anyone, anywhere says about her and apparently suffered a nervous breakdown, comes to see this as an asset when, after her father's death, she learns that she is not alone.
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Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2013.
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English
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Blanche, a famous Hollywood star, is crippled in a car accident and must be taken care of by her sister Jane, a former child star jealous of her sister's fame. As the hatred between the two sisters grows, Jane begins to torture her ailing sister.
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Starring Jules volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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Second grade is over and Jules is on her way to Quebec to film a spy movie, but she misses all her friends, and with only a hockey player and a diva starlet as cast mates in a place where nobody speaks English, she is feeling lonely--and her mother will not even let her go bungee-jumping.
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Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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It's been years since anyone really thought about Hayley Aldridge. A child star turned television royalty, Hayley spent years in Hollywood partying and being plastered across the front page of all the tabloids before quietly disappearing after a whirlwind marriage and divorce and very public breakdown. Once the tabloids wrung every last drop out of the drama, they moved on to the next It Girl. But Hayley is still here. For over a decade, she's been...
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Starring Jules volume 2
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Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
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English
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Jules, excited and nervous about her part in a sitcom pilot, is also concerned about her class moving up ceremony and her touchy relationships with ex-best friend Charlotte and new best friend Elinor.
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Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
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"Two icons from the golden age of Hollywood, Oscar® winners Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, take their famous feud onscreen in Robert Aldrich's newly restored thriller. In fierce, no-holds-barred performances, Bette Davis portrays aging ex-child star Baby Jane Hudson while Joan Crawford plays Blanche, the crippled sister Jane torments psychologically. As the sisters descend into madness, the tension builds to a shocking ending in this unforgettable...
13) Licorice pizza
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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The story of Alana Kane and Gary Valentine growing up, running around and going through the treacherous navigation of first love in the San Fernando Valley, 1973.
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Shirley Temple volume 5
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
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A talent scout believes that little Rebecca could be the next big thing on radio and tries to get her on the air.
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Milo and Jazz mysteries volume 10
Publisher
Kane Press
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
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English
Description
All of Westview is excited when teen idol Starr Silveira arrives to film an episode of her television show, but when contest winners start receiving letters asking them to return their valuable show memorabilia, sleuths-in-training Milo and Jazz suspect a scam.
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Starring Jules volume 4
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 3
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English
Description
Jules is starting third grade, but her new teacher seems a little strange, she has to choose and research a famous person for the class wax museum project, and rehearsals for the sitcom she is in are harder than ever--especially since the TV show is about to air.
17) Nikhil out loud
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Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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"From the acclaimed actor and Stonewall Honor-winning author of The Best at It, Maulik Pancholy, comes a new middle grade novel about a gay Indian American boy who learns the power of using his voice. Thirteen-year-old Nikhil Shah is the beloved voice actor for Raj Reddy on the hit animated series Raj Reddy in Outer Space. But being a star on TV doesn't mean you have everything figured out behind the scenes. . . . When his mom temporarily moves them...
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Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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The irrepressible daughter of a two-bit gangster and a movie showgirl comes of age in golden-era Hollywood and a nascent Las Vegas before her beauty captures the attentions of one of the Strip's most powerful men.
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