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    • Age Range: Young Adult
    • Pub. Date: June 2006
    • 256pp

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      • Pub. Date: June 2006
      • Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
      • Format: Paperback, 256pp
      • Age Range: Young Adult

      Synopsis

      Jessie's the queen of buzz... and she's about to get stung!
      Landing the star role in Reckless Summer-filmed at her high school last year-definitely had its perks for Jessie Philips. She shared romantic scenes with the superstar, Shane Rockett, and he set her heart aflame. Then he doused it when she caught him kissing a co-star. Jessie thought a summer like that could never be topped-but she was so wrong.
      Now she's landed her own teen celeb column in a gossip magazine. Jessie gets to live in Hollywood and rub elbows with all the celebs she drools over (hopefully there will be more rubbing than drooling). She's seeing a lot more of Shane and he's sending out signals too...but sightings of him with a teen actress are giving her major doubts. With Shane's needed A-list contacts and his gorgeous smile, is it worth risking her heart again? It looks like this summer's hottest gossip may be about Jessie.

      Biography

      Mary Kennedy is a clinical psychologist in a private practice on the east coast. She specializes in forensic work, and her clients have included murderers, and convicted felons. When she's not chasing down psychopaths, she writes young adult novels and middle grade fiction. She has published 30 novels, and her books have sold twelve million copies worldwide.

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      Reviewed by Jocelyn Pearce for TeensReadToo.comby TeensReadToo

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      November 17, 2008: TALES OF A HOLLYWOOD GOSSIP QUEEN is a fun, fabulous read with a focus that's rather prevalent in current young adult literature: an inside look at Hollywood. In this book, it comes from a girl who stumbles into it all. Jessie never wanted to be a star, but she landed a part next to Hollywood hottie Shane Rockett in the movie Reckless Summer when it was filming in her hometown in Connecticut, and now her life is now inextricably tied to Hollywood--and to Shane. When she has to visit Los Angeles to redo the vocals on the movie, she hooks up with Shane again, and her picture starts appearing in the tabloids.

      Soon, though, she's not just being photographed by the media; she's become one of them! Jessie's plans to return to Connecticut are postponed, to her delight, when she lands a summer internship at a hot new entertainment magazine, Juicy. Unfortunately, that might not be as awesome as it seems--not if she has to share the work with nasty Alicia, who seems to have it in for Jessie.

      Can a small town girl from Connecticut handle all that goes on in Hollywood?

      This is a fun, quick read with great characters and an inside look at Hollywood! It's not the first book to look behind the scenes and into life in the spotlight, but it's one of the most fun. Of course, that topic itself is usually bound to be fun! Jessie is a great main character, and what goes on during her time in Hollywood is entertaining, too. TALES OF A HOLLYWOOD GOSSIP QUEEN is funny, with writing that flows nicely and keeps the reader entertained from the first page to the last. It's definitely a feel-good sort of story, though; almost everything that happens to Jessie is resolved quickly (almost too quickly) and she almost always comes out on the good end of things. Even though the story itself is unrealistic (small town girl ends up in Hollywood dating a superstar? How often does that happen?), it wouldn't hurt to make things like that ring a bit truer. Overall, though, this is a fun, enjoyable read that made me want to read the first book about Jessie's foray into stardom, CONFESSIONS OF AN ALMOST MOVIE STAR.

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      August 23, 2006: This was a spectacular book. I read this as a book for my summer reading project. I will be honest and say I hate reading. But this book was just a great book that flowed really easy and i read in 4 hours. It was a book that i enjoyed reading, and i am looking forward to buying more books like this one!


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