Supernova
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- $4.99
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- $4.99
Publisher Description
When you're reaching for the stars, nothing can hold you back.
Star Calloway is fourteen years old, and she's the most famous pop star in the world. Her album has topped the charts, her video is all the rage, and she's about to start her world tour. There's only one thing that keeps her life from being perfect: Star's parents and baby brother have been missing for two years, and no one knows what happened to them.
Still, Star knows her family would want her to be happy, and performing means everything to her. But with so many mysterious things going wrong in preparation for the tour, could the show be over before it begins?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Featuring a glitzy photo of a smiling blond teenager with lush locks, the cover of this debut novel in the Star Power series may well snag the attention of preteens. And Hapka's (the Mucha Lucha series) peppy (if clunky) narrative will likely keep them turning the pages as a mini-melodrama unfolds. Fresh from her "planetwide hit" first album (called Star Power), 14-year-old Star is a superstar singer about to launch her first world tour for her second album, Supernova. The unassuming gal has lived in a small Pennsylvania town with her grandmother since her parents and baby brother disappeared after embarking on a "fateful boat trip" two years earlier. Excited but apprehensive about the tour, Star, her manager, bodyguard, tutor and hair and makeup artist all become puzzled by a string of mishaps: the band receives the wrong music (luckily, "Star had been born with an unfailing ear for pitch, so before long the musicians were able to pick up the notes she was humming"), backup dancers fail to show up at rehearsal, her entourage's hotel reservations in London are mysteriously cancelled and most devastatingly of all Star's beloved pug disappears. Readers will clue in to who's responsible for the sabotage long before Star and her gang do but the star-studded hoopla (complete with penthouse Manhattan apartment, screaming fans and omnipresent paparazzi) will appeal to kids who like their reading lite and bouncy. Star will land in the spotlight again in Always Dreamin' (-86788-3), due out the same month. Ages 9-13. (May)
