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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
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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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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Series
Starring Jules volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
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.
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...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Book for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
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
2021.
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Brooklyn-based aspiring writer Lucy Minninger has no trouble putting the comedy in her rom-coms. It's the romance part of the equation that's the problem. But even as the rejection slips pile up, and her second dates dwindle, Lucy refuses to give up hope-or her HeartThrobs dating profile . . . Former child star Rudy Riziero made his mark on some of the most popular kids' shows of the '90s. But that early success has pigeonholed him into a stand-up...
11) Second best
Author
Publisher
Gallic Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"It's 1999. Martin Hill is ten years old, crazy about Arsenal and has a minor crush on a girl named Betty. Then he makes it to the final two in the casting for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. In the end, the other boy is picked for the role of a lifetime. A devastated Martin tries to move on with his life. But how can he escape his failure, especially when it's the most famous film series in the world?"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Starring Jules volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Thirty years after a tragic accident shut down production of the classic children's program Mister Magic, the five surviving cast members have done their best to move on. But just as generations of cultishly devoted fans still cling to the lessons they learned from the show, the cast, known as the Circle of Friends, have spent their lives searching for the happiness they felt while they were on it. The friendship. The feeling of belonging. And the...
Author
Series
Starring Jules volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
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.
15) Licorice pizza
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
The story of Alana Kane and Gary Valentine growing up, running around, and falling in love in the San Fernando Valley, 1973.
Author
Series
Starring Jules volume 4
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
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.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"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...
Series
Shirley Temple volume 5
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
A talent scout believes that little Rebecca could be the next big thing on radio and tries to get her on the air.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Hollywood is a sickness. Few people understand this better than Salma Lowe, progeny of Hollywood royalty and a former child-star turned guide of the Stars Six Feet Under tour bus. Salma spends her days leading tourists around the star-studded avenues of Hollywood, pointing out where actresses have met spectacular or untimely ends. Salma knows better than anyone that a tragic death is the surest path to stardom. Her own sister, Tawney, dubbed the "Hurricane...
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