The Upside of Ordinary
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- 11,99 €
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- 11,99 €
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Eleven-year-old Jermaine wants to be famous: limo-riding, camera-flashing, crowd-waving famous. Since her family isn't likely to move from Maine to Hollywood so she can become a movie star, she decides she'll make a reality TV show about her family and friends. Jermaine quickly realizes that her everyday life is boring, so to kick up her show a notch, she starts staging events to elicit more humor, more drama, more excitement. This laugh-aloud debut novel takes a lighthearted look at unbridled ambition, the cult of celebrity, the reality behind reality TV, and the upside of being part of an ordinary family.
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Jermaine is determined to be famous, but her Maine town is so far from Hollywood that movie stardom isn't likely, nor is becoming a supermodel ("Let's face it, how many supermodels can you think of that have frizzy brown hair and a palate extender?"). So the 11-year-old opts to create a reality TV show based on her family. Yet after filming her mother cleaning a chicken, her father plunging a toilet, and her sister burning microwave popcorn, Jermaine decides her family is too ordinary for TV. Her solution? She'll orchestrate the drama. In amusing, ill-fated scenarios, Jermaine botches a friend's haircut while filming a makeover and sends her arachnophobic mother screeching out of the house by setting loose a tarantula. In an easygoing story about following one's dreams and appreciating what one has, debut novelist Lubner (whose picture books include A Horse's Tale: A Colonial Williamsburg Adventure) balances well-staged comedy with Jermaine's thoughtful musings on her family's eccentricities, which lead her to recognize that "ordinary" is relative. Ages 8 12.
