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Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
When a family of bonobo apes who know American Sign Language are kidnapped from a language laboratory, their mysterious appearance on a reality TV show propels scientist Isabel Duncan, together with reporter John Thigpen, on a personal mission to rescue them. An entertaining book that calls into question our assumptions about these animals who share 99.4% of our DNA.
Author
Language
English
Description
Just as Zack Dylan on the verge of winning it all on the popular TV show Fifteen Minutes, his choices lead him to the brink of personal disaster. Meanwhile, a former Fifteen Minutes winner is searching for meaning amidst her own private losses. Can she warn Zack about the real price of fame? Or will Zack lose everything he loves for his fifteen minutes of glory?
3) L.A. Candy
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When Hampton High senior Jesse is cast in a reality television show along with five other, more popular students, drama on and off screen reveals that what the audience and producers want is not the same as what Jesse wants.
5) Reality boy
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"An emotionally damaged seventeen-year-old boy in Pennsylvania, who was once an infamous reality television show star, meets a girl from another dysfunctional family, and she helps him out of his angry shell"--
Author
Series
#MurderTrending volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the near future, citizens can enjoy watching the executions of society's most infamous convicted felons, streaming live on The Postman app from the prison island Alcatraz 2.0. Dee Guerrera wakes up in a haze, lying on the ground of a dimly lit warehouse, about to be the next victim of the app, found guilty of murdering her stepsister. But Dee refuses to roll over and die for a heinous crime she didn't commit. Her newly formed posse, the Death Row...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Someone burns down the home of the school janitor and he dies in the blaze. Everyone in Addamsville, Indiana, points a finger at Zora Novak, despite the fact she has been on the straight and narrow since her father was thrown in jail. Addamsville has a history of tragedy, and thirty years ago a similar string of fires left several townspeople dead. The arsonist was never caught. Teaming up with her cousin Artemis, an annoying self-proclaimed Addamsville...
Author
Series
Megalodon series volume 3
Publisher
Forge
Language
English
Description
Professor Jonas Taylor is the only man to have survived an encounter with a prehistoric Megalodon, a 60-foot, 20-ton monster, and the only person adamant that the Meg is still in existence. But when several deep sea probes are disabled in the Pacific Ocean where Taylor claims to have seen the Meg, he is called in to investigate--and to face the beast again.
12) Something real
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
406 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Since the cancellation of her family's reality television show, seventeen-year-old Bonnie Baker, one of twelve siblings, has tried to live a normal life with real friends and a possible boyfriend, until her mother and the show's producers decide to bring "Baker's Dozen" back on the air.
13) Infamous
Author
Series
Fame game novels volume 3
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
277 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"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
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
An exceptional new novel about falling down, risking everything and embracing what makes us unique. Danger "Danny" Danielle Warren is no stranger to falling. After losing an eye in a childhood accident, she had to relearn her perception of movement and space. Now Danny keeps her head down, studies hard, and works to fulfill everyone else's needs. She's certain that her mom's bitterness and her TV star father's absence are her fault. If only she were...
15) Starstruck
Author
Series
Fame game novels volume 2
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
293 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Hounded by relentless paparazzi and finding their every move subjected to drama, rising reality television stars Madison, Carmen, Gaby and Kate discover that fame comes at a high price.
Author
Series
Vault of dreamers trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
418 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Rosie Sinclair, who attends an elite arts school where students are contestants on a high stakes reality show, skips her sleeping pill one night and discovers that the school is really a cover-up for the lucrative and sinister practice of dream harvesting.
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