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Sixteen-year old Jessie, still grieving over her mother's death, must move from Chicago to "The Valley, " with a new stepfamily but no new friends until an anonymous fellow student emails and offers to help her navigate the school's treacherous social waters.
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I funny volume 3
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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.
3) Starstruck
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Fame game novels volume 2
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Lauren Conrad, star of the hit MTV reality series The Hills, brings her insider knowledge to Starstruck, the second book in the Fame Game series.
In Starstruck, Madison isn't getting much screen time on The Fame Game, the reality TV show following three girls trying to become stars in L.A. She's too busy doing community service after stealing a necklace. Kate, on the other hand, is getting huge amounts of publicity now that one of her
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Molly Moon volume 2
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Believing that she has been sent to Los Angeles by her librarian friend, Lucy Logan, to stop an evil plot by the wealthy Primo Cell, Molly Moon and her friend Roger, orphans with unusual hypnotic powers, find themselves in danger from an unsuspected source.
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Dark artifices volume 1
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"It’s been five years since the events of City of Heavenly Fire that brought the Shadowhunters to the brink of oblivion. Emma Carstairs is no longer a child in mourning, but a young woman bent on discovering who killed her parents and avenging her losses. Together with her battle partner Julian Blackthorn, Emma must learn to trust her head and her heart as she investigates a demonic plot that stretches across Los Angeles, from the Sunset Strip to...
7) L.A. Candy
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When nineteen-year-old Jane Roberts is cast in a new reality show, she discovers that the fame and fortune of her new life come at a high price to herself and her friendships.
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Fame game novels volume 1
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"Reality star Madison Parker, determined to take her career to the next level, signs on for a new TV show called THE FAME GAME. But more drama happens behind the scenes than onscreen"--
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Rhea and her friends Zeke and Malachi are South L.A. born and raised. The old neighborhood is fading away, and more white people are flocking to this little urban paradise for its cheap rent, transforming the place they call home. When an eviction notice from a greedy landlord threatens to split up the crew, Rhea and her friends use social media to form a fake gang in hopes of scaring off developers. They even use firecrackers to create the illusion...
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High-schooler Willa has just moved to California with her mother and film director stepfather, and she will be attending a private school--but her real problem is that she keeps seeing things that are not really there, like a dead body in the swimming pool, and her visions may be connected to a serial killer that is stalking young girls in Hollywood.
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Twelve-year-old Derek Fallon has the opportunity of a lifetime--to perform stunts in a movie featuring a popular twelve-year-old star--but complications arise involving his best friend, a capuchin monkey, and Derek's chronic inability to concentrate on schoolwork.
12) Infamous
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Fame game novels volume 3
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"Kate and Carmen are about to become big stars, but they're going to have to survive some backstage drama first. Madison is learning hard lessons about fame as she deals with backstabbing 'friends' and family, out-of-control paparazzi, and a scandal reported in every tabloid."--from publisher's description
13) Hollywood Hills
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The week before graduation, Alexa and Holly go to Los Angeles.
14) Spoiled: a novel
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When her mother dies, sixteen-year-old Molly moves from Indiana to California, to live with her newly discovered father, a Hollywood megastar, and his pampered teenaged daughter.
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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.
16) Witch baby
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Weetzie Bat volume 2
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Witch Baby comes to live with Weetzie Bat and My-Secret-Agent-Lover-Man and has wild adventures in Los Angeles as she tries to understand where she belongs.
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Celebrating the Freedom to Read: Kids
Hispanic & Latino Authors: Chapter Books and Graphic Novels (SCPL-YS)
LSS - Hispanic Heritage
OBD Latinx & Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15-October 15) - Youth
Hispanic & Latino Authors: Chapter Books and Graphic Novels (SCPL-YS)
LSS - Hispanic Heritage
OBD Latinx & Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15-October 15) - Youth
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Nine-year-old Betita and her parents fled Mexico after her uncle was killed by the cartels, and settled in Los Angeles seeking political asylum and safety in what her father calls Aztlan, the land of the cranes; but now they have been swept up by by the government's Immigration Customs Enforcement, her father deported back to Mexico, and Betita and her mother confined in a family detention camp--Betita finds heart in her imagination and the picture...
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Emancipated trilogy volume 2
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Six teens legally liberated from parental control are thrown into danger when a new houseguest arrives at their Venice Beach house.
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