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41) The broken world
Author
Publisher
Harper Teen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"An exciting sequel to The Marked Girl, filled with fantastical adventure and a quest to save two worlds... In the fantasy world of Caelum, Liv, Cedric, and Kat attempt to defeat an evil traitor and his army to save their families and the kingdom. Meanwhile, Liv's best friend and Cedric's frenemy stick in LA to try and figure out how to fix Los Angeles. The city, thanks to the open portals between LA and Caelum, is breaking down: the sky is orange,...
Author
Series
43 Old Cemetery Road volume 5
Publisher
Harcourt, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
When film producer Moe Block Busters offers to make their book into a movie, Iggy, Olive, and Seymour head to Hollywood where Olive, furious at being written out of the script, enlists the help of a famed femme fatale to scare the despicable director half to death.
Author
Series
Alien superstar volume 2
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"After escaping his oppressive red dwarf planet and landing a role on a popular Hollywood sitcom, Buddy Burger seems destined for high-flying success. His legions of fans love his six eyes, his suction cup feet, and even his excessive need for avocados. It seems nothing can stop his rise to super-stardom--until the arrival of Citizen Cruel, a shape-shifting Squadron member sent from Buddy's home planet to bring him back by any means necessary. Will...
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Eighteen-year-old Henrietta arrives in Los Angeles in 1934 with dreams of trading her boring life for stardom. She?s determined to make it as an actress, despite her family?s doubts and rumors of would-be starlets gone missing. And by the skin of her teeth, she pulls it off! A serendipitous job offer arrives, and Henrietta finds herself on a whirlwind publicity tour for a major film role with a vexingly unpleasant actor tapped by the studio to be...
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Shelby Bloom's family has just moved from Ohio to Los Angeles where she will be forced to share a room with her eleven-year-old sister Lila (ugh!), and try and make friends in her new school (hopeless, especially for a girl who likes to tell jokes)--but Ajay, the boy across the street has a dog and likes to laugh, and two horse-loving girls (who have never actually ridden a horse) invite her to the local riding stables, and suddenly Los...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Almost-thirteen-year-old Naomi receives a mysterious package containing a tiny clay Golem that obeys her every command, and she is unprepared for the chaos he creates when she sends him away with instructions to save the world.
Naomi Teitelbaum is so ready for her Bat Mitzvah. Her prayers are memorized and she's definitely got a handle on her Torah portion (well, almost). Then she gets a mysterious gift: a tiny clay Golem. To Naomi's shock, it comes...
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"2019. Moud is an out gay teen living in Los Angeles with his distant father, Saeed. When Moud gets the news that his grandfather in Iran is dying, he accompanies his dad to Tehran, where the revelation of family secrets will force Moud into a new understanding of his history, his culture, and himself. 1978. Saeed is an engineering student with a promising future ahead of him in Tehran. But when his parents discover his involvement in the country's...
Author
Publisher
Feiwel & Friends
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
"Aminah Mae Safi's Tell Me How You Really Feel is an ode to romantic comedies, following two girls on opposite sides of the social scale as they work together to make a movie and try very hard not to fall in love. The first time Sana Khan asked out a girl--Rachel Recht--it went so badly that she never did it again. Rachel is a film buff and aspiring director, and she's seen Carrie enough times to learn you can never trust cheerleaders (and beautiful...
Author
Series
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.
Publisher
Candlewick Entertainment, an imprint of Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"So exciting! Peppa, George, Mummy Pig, and Daddy Pig have won a contest and are going to Hollywood--to be in a movie! But their first stop is New York City, where there's so much to see, from the Empire State Building to the lights of Times Square."--