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2) Star Island
Author
Series
Skink novels (Carl Hiaasen) volume 6
Formats
Description
"Meet twenty-two-year-old Cherry Pye, a pop star since she was fourteen - and about to attempt a comeback from her latest drug-and-alcohol disaster. Now meet Cherry's 'undercover stunt double', Ann DeLusia. Ann portrays Cherry whenever the singer is too wasted to go out in public. And it is Ann-mistaken-for-Cherry who is kidnapped from a South Beach hotel by obsessed paparazzo Bang Abbott. Cherry's handlers want to rescue Ann while keeping her existence...
3) Dog beach
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
Mafia enforcer Louie Mo hopes to return to his career as a stunt double when he meets Troy, a screenwriter and director who offers him a role in a new movie.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Description
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.
5) Drive
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2006
Description
"Fans of mysteries featuring literary figures as crime-solvers will thoroughly enjoy this series." -Booklist
It's 1927, and "the Ferber season on Broadway" is about to begin. The musical adaptation of Show Boat by Oscar Hammerstein and Jerome Kern opens on December 27, and The Royal Family, her comedy of manners written with George Kaufman, opens the following night. But despite the excitement, author Edna Ferber misses both opening nights. She has...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 5
Description
"Pearl lives on a ranch where her chores include collecting eggs and feeding ornery ostriches. She has three older brothers, who don't coddle her at all. And she knows a thing or two about horses, too. One day, Pearl's brothers get cushy jobs doing stunts for this new form of entertainment called "moving pictures." They're the Daredevil Donnelly Brothers, a Death-Defying Cowboy Trio. Before she knows it, Pearl has stumbled into being a stunt girl...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
When abrasive Hollywood director Robert Reeves is accused of murdering a stuntman, lawyer Sandy Moss reluctantly accepts the case. Robert might be an egotistical liar, but something tells Sandy he's innocent. At least this time, her charismatic, adorable and oh so annoying movie star boyfriend Patrick McNabb isn't involved. He isn't ... right?
Author
Series
Mr. Puffball volume 1
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Mr. Puffball, a ten-month-old kitten who wants to be a movie star, leaves home and makes his way to Hollywood, where he lands a job at Purramount Studios working with his hero, El Gato, who turns out to be very different from what Mr. Puffball expected.
Author
Pub. Date
c2002,c2004
Description
1491: Leonardo looked upon his invention, understood its powers, and knew he must hide it from the men of his age. Thus, a profound treasure was lost for five centuries. Now the race to find it begins.
Hurtling across the Atlantic, a plane goes down -- taking with it a page from the journals of Leonardo da Vinci.
In Georgetown, the home of museum curator Rollo Barnett burns to the ground. Only his young son, Reb, escapes alive.
Are the tragedies connected?...
15) The Golden Angel
Author
Series
House of Winslow volume 26
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 15
Description
For Erin Winslow, living in untamed Africa is an adventure, yet she longs for even more excitement. A pilot unexpectedly enters her life, and she persuades him to teach her to fly. Before she realizes it, she finds herself falling in love with him. But when the discovery of a devastating truth leaves Erin deeply hurt, she flees to America. That's where Quaid Merritt, stunt flyer, steals into her life, reigniting her dreams to fly.
16) Mountain rescue
Author
Series
Operation K-9 brothers volume 3
Pub. Date
[2021].
Description
The sole witness to a murder, stuntwoman Rachel Denning thought shed found the perfect hideout in a remote cabin just outside Asheville, North Carolina. Until a strange man appears in her bedroom. After a few terrifying moments, she realizes its a mix-uphes not there to kill herand Rachel finds herself with an unexpected protector in the form of a navy SEAL. Dallas Manning is just trying to recover. After being rescued from the Taliban, hes on extended...
Author
Series
House of Winslow volume Bk. 26
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 15
18) Solar eclipse
Author
Pub. Date
[1999]
Description
Stuntwoman Shay Waco uses the skills of her trade to jump sixty feet and escape a drug dealer trying to kill her. After which she joins a local sheriff and goes after the dealer. By the author of Soon She Will Be Gone.
20) Daredevils
Author
Series
Hardy Boys mystery stories volume 159
Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Description
The Hardy Boys get more than they bargin for when they help a family friend, and Hollywood stuntman, Terrence McCauley.