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Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Eleven-year-old Dini loves movies, and so when she learns that her family is moving to India for two years, her devastation over leaving her best friend in Maryland is tempered by the possibility of meeting her favorite actress, Dolly Singh.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 12
Description
"It's 1914, and twelve-year old Darleen Darling has the most exciting job in the world--she gets to dangle from cliffs and stop moving trains and soar through the sky in runaway balloons! Yes, that's right: Darleen is a hero and a star--in the make-believe world of the movies ... But Darleen's fictional adventures collide with reality when a fake kidnapping intended as a publicity stunt becomes all too real. Now she is in the hands of the dastardly...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
This title explores the life and career of Zendaya. Learn about Zendaya's childhood, family, and career, including how she got her start and her rise to fame. Dynamic photos give readers a behind-the-scenes look at this popular actor. Other features include a table of contents, fun facts, enlightening quotations, a timeline, and an index.
86) Chris Hemsworth
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Describes the life and career of actor Chris Hemsworth, focusing on his role as Marvel superhero Thor. Includes fun facts and a "Inside Hollywood" special feature"--
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
One month before the release of the highly anticipated film The Birth of a Nation, actress Gabrielle Union shook the world with a vulnerable and impassioned editorial in which she urged our society to have compassion for victims of sexual violence. In the wake of rape allegations made against director and actor Nate Parker, Union-a forty-four-year-old actress who launched her career with roles in iconic 90s movies-instantly became the insightful,...
89) Love, unscripted
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Formats
Description
She thought she’d scripted the perfect boyfriend. But she’s convinced that the actor cast to play him doesn’t know a thing about real love. Frustrated with the sad state of her dating life, restaurateur Chloe Culpepper penned a single romance novel featuring the man of her dreams. Upon the book’s publication, the hero resonated with thousands of women, catapulting the book to the top of the bestsellers list and earning the novel a movie option....
90) Robin Williams
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.9 - AR Pts: 4
Description
This book profiles comedian and actor Robin Williams, whose award-winning career includes stand-up comedy work, the television series "Mork and Mindy," and movies such as "Mrs. Doubtfire," "Aladdin," and others.
91) Zap
Author
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 2
Description
What play could possibly suit the point-and-click attention spans of kids born with remote controls in their cribs? A nonstop farce that juxtaposes seven different plays--performed simultaneously: as characters from one play end up on the set of another, their befuddlement, exasperation, and brave attempts at improvisation are truly priceless.
92) I am Spock
Author
Pub. Date
[1995]
Description
Leonard Nimoy's portrayal of the ever-logical Vulcan, Mr. Spock, is one of the most recognizable, loved, and pervasive characterizations in modern popular culture. His single raised eyebrow, the curiosity with which he said "fascinating" at an emotional outbreak, the endless ways he pointed out the illogic of human foibles, have gone down in the history of entertainment as defining one of the true icons of the last several decades. Now, in his long-awaited...
93) Casting Lily
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
"In this high-interest novel for teen readers, Ava lands a part in a professional outdoor theater production."--
94) The humbling
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Description
Everything is over for Simon Axler. One of the leading American stage actors of his generation, now in his sixties, he has lost his magic, his talent, and his assurance. His Falstaff and Peer Gynt and Vanya, all his great roles, "are melted into air, into thin air." When he goes onstage he feels like a lunatic and looks like an idiot. His confidence in his powers has drained away; he imagines people laughing at him; he can no longer pretend to be...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 12
Description
Seventeen-year-old Caitlin Singleberry is a proper Christian teenager and member of a family singing group, but today she has been given a truly impossible assignment--keep her cousin Heller Harrigan, Hollywood wild child, out of trouble for the last weekend before her first big movie debuts.
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Formats
Description
"This book contains some stories from my life: the awkward growing-up years, the confusing dating years, the fulfilling work years, and what it was like to be asked to play one of my favorite characters again. Also included: tales of living on a houseboat, meeting guys at awards shows, and that time I was asked to be a butt model. A hint: all three made me seasick. -- Lauren Graham".
98) Born to be Wild
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Description
Star of a popular soap opera, Mary Lisa Beverly plays the woman everyone loves to hate. But the drama hits close ot home when someone tries to kill her and she must turn to the last man she'd expect for help.
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Description
"In the spring of 2020, Lara’s three daughters return to the family's orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance years before at a theater company called Tom Lake. As Lara recalls the past, her daughters examine their own lives and relationship with their mother, and are forced to reconsider the world and everything...
100) The Kid & I
Pub. Date
c2006
Description
Bill, a down-and-out actor, is unexpectedly hired to do a sequel to a film that made him famous. He learns that his co-star is a rich kid with no acting experience, and what appeared to be the chance for a comeback turns into a series of complications.