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21) The chaperone
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Language
English
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A novel about the friendship between an adolescent, pre-movie-star Louise Brooks, and the 36-year-old woman who chaperones her to New York City for a summer, in 1922, and how it changes both their lives.
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English
Description
Michelle Turner thought she lost everything at 17. Her father, a Hollywood legend, had finally summoned her to his Montana ranch. But when he learned of her affair with Sam McPhee, a hired hand, he had Sam fired and destroyed his family. Michelle, pregnant and alone, fled to Seattle.
Now a successful advertising exec, Michelle is safe - safe from love, safe from hurt. But her son is lost to her, a troubled teen on the verge of self-destruction,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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"Two star-crossed assassins in Elizabethan England must go undercover as actors in one of William Shakespeare's plays in a plot to kill the queen"--
In the early sixteen-hundreds, two star-crossed assassins, nineteen-year-old Toby and seventeen-year-old Kit, go undercover as actors in a Shakespeare play in a plot to kill Queen Elizabeth.
25) Devil's garden
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
In this noir crime classic about one of the most notorious trials in American history--the 1921 manslaughter case against silent-screen comedy star Roscoe Fatty Arbuckle--Dashiell Hammett ivestigates what really happened at Arbuckle's San Francisco p
27) Double down
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Series
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2008, c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Frank and Joe continue to work undercover as part of teen movie star Justin Carraway's entourage as they try to solve the murder of a celebrity photographer.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Description
At almost-thirteen, Junebug has never felt right except as stagehand at her father's summer theater, but after her parents separate and an irritating intern takes over her responsibilities, she discovers how hard life can be without a script to follo
29) Death scene
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Series
Publisher
Severn House Publishers Ltd
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
Description
Cissie Rowe, a rising star of the silent screen, is found brutally murdered in her own home in the seaside town of Shoreham-By-Sea, home to a film studio and thriving theatrical community. DCI Henry Johnstone and DS Mickey Hitchens are despatched to investigate.
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Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Famous toy actor Sock Monkey finds it almost impossible to kiss his costar while filming the singing cowboy movie "Hubbub at the Happy Canyon Hoedown." Yee-haw! Sock Monkey lassoes a part in a singing cowboy movie -- if he can only get up the nerve t
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English
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Description
"When Julie Crawford leaves Fort Wayne, Indiana, for Hollywood, she never imagines she'll cross paths with Carole Lombard, the actress from Julie's hometown. Julie wants to be a screenwriter, but the only job she can find is in the publicity office of the demanding producer David O. Selznick, who is burning through directors, writers, and money as he films 'Gone with the Wind'. Carole hires Julie as an assistant and invites her into the glamorous...
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Language
English
Description
Ricky Lam had it all -- a thriving film career, the adoration of countless fans, incredible wealth, and a cocaine and alcohol problem that was about to destroy him. Luckily, he also had a business manager -- his straight-arrow older brother Philip -- who strong-armed him into an addiction clinic. But not even the passage of fifteen years, Ricky's rehabilitation, and undreamed-of success for both men can mend the rift that erupted between the brothers...
36) Enjoy the view
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Series
Language
English
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CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE River Lane's acting career is tanking fast. Determined to start fresh behind the camera, she'll take whatever job she can get, including filming a documentary about the picturesque town of Moose Springs. When mountaineer and Moose Springs local Easton Lockett sees what looks like a woman on her own in the wilderness, of course he offers to help. The last thing he expects is to interrupt a film shoot and earn River's wrath. But...
37) Boo crew
Author
Series
Nancy Drew clue books volume 10
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Nancy Drew and her friends investigate when strange things start happening at a local theater, rumored to be haunted, during auditions for a televised talent show.
38) The Sisters Club
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Series
Language
English
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In Acton, Oregon, sisters Alex, Stevie, and Joey tell about their lives, including their line of actor ancestors, creative family dinners, toe marshmallows, swearing in Shakespeare, and the Sisters Club.
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Series
Boxcar children volume 69
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Description
The Aldens investigate when the arrival of several suspicious characters in Greenfield coincides with a mystery involving a popular boy actor.
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Series
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English
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"Kay Powell, theatrical agent to non-human animals, is babysitting--that is, birdsitting--her client, a parrot named Barney, on the set of his new TV show, Dead City. When the show's charismatic star is shot in his trailer between scenes, the only eyewitness to the crime is--you guessed it--Barney. And even though Kay keeps explaining that even a "talking" parrot doesn't actually converse with people, the investigators insist on interrogating the...
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