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1) Nerve
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
As a player in NERVE, an anonymous game of dares broadcast live online, high-schooler Vee is unhappy to be watched constantly but finds it exhilarating to be paired with handsome Ian taking ever riskier dares--until the stakes become too high.
Author
Series
Judy Moody volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
560L
Language
English
Description
When a third grade classmate gets her picture in the paper for winning a spelling bee, Judy is determined to find a way to become famous herself.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Moving to Hollywood with his academic parents, eleven-year-old Mitch feels like an outsider in his school where everyone has connections to the powerful and famous in the entertainment industry, until he is cast in a soda commercial that launches a popular catchphrase.
Author
Series
Heidi Heckelbeck volume 25
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Brewster Elementary School is going to have its very own weekly news program, and both Heidi and her nemesis, Melanie Maplethorpe, want to be the star of the show" --
Author
Series
Joshua Dread volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Formats
Description
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.
Author
Series
I funny volume 3
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.
Author
Series
Wink books (J.C. Phillipps) volume 1
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
Wink loves being the most famous ninja in Japan but when he needs a nap his fans will not leave him alone, and so he seeks guidance from his former teacher, Master Zutsu.
Author
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
c1963
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
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.
12) Extras
Author
Series
Uglies volume 4
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
417 pages ; 19 cm.
Language
English
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Description
After rebel Tally Youngblood brings down the uglies/pretties/specials regime, fame, instead of beauty, becomes the new world order, and fifteen-year-old Aya Fuse embarks on a dangerous plan to boost her popularity ranking.
13) The daughters
Author
Series
Daughters (Joanna Philbin) volume 1
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
275 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In New York City, three fourteen-year-old best friends who are all daughters of celebrities watch out for each other as they try to strike a balance between ordinary high school events, such as finding a date for the homecoming dance, and family functions like walking the red carpet with their famous parents.
14) How to be famous
Author
Publisher
Gecko Press
Pub. Date
2016
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Take a trip through the zoo with this irrepressible pigeon, as she preens and poses alongside all the animals, right up to the sharp teeth of a grumpy lion ...
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"Everyone loves Bacon but letting his fame go to his head may prove more dangerous than he thought"--
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
780L
Physical Desc
306 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"The tragic 9/11 event in NYC that changed the world, altered the life of Abbi Hope Goldstein as well as that of Noah Stern. They did not know each other back then, but they know each other now, and while Abbi is trying to move forward with her life, Noah still has unanswered questions that he believes Abbi can help answer"--
17) Influence
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
HL 660L
Physical Desc
361 pages
Language
English
Description
After her family moves to Los Angeles, Delilah Rollins, already a minor Internet celebrity, plunges into the competitive and glamorous world of social media influencers, but can cosmetics and good lighting conceal cheating, manipulation, blackmail, and murder?
18) If this gets out
Author
Publisher
Wednesday Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
416 pages 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Best friends and members of a popular British boy band find their once-easy rapport straining under the pressures of fame and their management's decision for gay singer Reuben to stay in the closet.
19) Claim to fame
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
256 p. ; 22 cm.
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.
Author
Series
Daughters (Joanna Philbin) volume 3
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
273 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Hudson is a gifted singer/songwriter like her mother, pop sensation Holla Jones, but while working on her debut album, Hudson struggles to convince her mother that she would rather stick with her own intimate style than follow her mother's path to fame.
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