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Publisher Annotation: In this empowering deconstruction of the so-called American Dream, a twelve-year-old Japanese American girl grapples with, and ultimately rises above, the racism and trials of middle school she experiences while chasing her dreams.
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English
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New York Times bestselling author Lynsay Sands returns to the Highlands of Scotland in her hottest new historical romance yet! Highlander Campbell Sinclair is no stranger to battle, so when he sees a lad attacked by bandits, he jumps into the fray. He didn't count on being stabbed. Grateful to the boy for nursing him back to health, Cam offers to accompany Jo safely to his destination. But when he accidentally comes across the lad bathing in the river,...
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Starring Jules volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2013
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) Don't touch
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HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2014?]
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English
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"16-year-old Caddie struggles with OCD, anxiety, and a powerful fear of touching another person's skin, which threatens her dreams of being an actress--until the boy playing Hamlet opposite her Ophelia gives her a reason to overcome her fears."--
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Starring Jules volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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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--it is almost too much drama for one seven-year-old New Yorker to handle.
7) Star style
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Series
My sister the vampire volume 8
Publisher
Egmont
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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The twins, Olivia and Ivy, win parts in a Hollywood production, but Ivy can't act.
8) Ballet shoes
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Shoes volume 1
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English
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Determined to make a name for themselves, three adopted sisters living in London train for the ballet and the stage and in the process discover that each has a special talent.
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Shoes volume 4
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Random House
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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During World War II in England, three motherless children, whose father is reported missing in action, go to live with their grandmother in London and join the members of their talented theatrical family in a school for stage training.
10) The joys of love
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English
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After graduating from college in 1941, Elizabeth Jerrold pursues her dream of becoming a stage actress, landing a position as an apprentice in a summer theater company where she hones her acting skills and falls in love with an aspiring director.
11) My wife's affair
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Amy Einhorn Books
Pub. Date
c2010
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English
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A smart, sexy novel about getting what you want-- but still wanting more. Georgie has a husband she loves, three boys she adores, and her acting career has been revived since they moved to London. But she risks it all for an affair that will have consequences no one could anticipate.
12) Secret admirer
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Fear Street. Original series volume 36
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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Selena finds out she loves acting in the high school play until an obsessive fan's joke turns into real terror.
14) Act cool
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English
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Transgender teen and aspiring actor August lands a spot at a prestigious performing arts high school in New York City, but he struggles to move past the life he left behind, with conservative parents who wanted to send him to conversion therapy.
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Stella Batts volume 8
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
[2015?]
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English
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Stella gets a chance to audition for her favorite television show when she meets a casting director who thinks she is perfect for the role, so she rehearses her lines until she know the part by heart, but the audition does not go as planned.
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Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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When Shai Williams, who plans to become a star on Broadway, loses the lead role in the third-grade musical at her performing arts elementary school in Atlanta, she learns an important lesson about adaptability, from her mother, aunt, and grandmother, all actresses.
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Starring Jules volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2014?]
Language
English
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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.
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