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21) Catching fire
Author
Series
Hunger Games trilogy volume 2
Language
English
Description
By winning the annual Hunger Games, District 12 tributes Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark have secured a life of safety and plenty for themselves and their families, but because they won by defying the rules, they unwittingly become the faces of an impending rebellion.
Author
Publisher
Spiegel & Grau
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
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.
24) What we buried
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Told in separate voices, Jory, whose face is partly paralyzed, and his sister Liv, a former reality television performer and child beauty pageant contestant, join forces to search for their missing parents.
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
When tweens Izzy, Ty, Kevin, JJ, and Mackenzie first heard there was going to be a kids' version of the reality TV obstacle competition National Ninja Champion, they all found themselves drawn to Fit Kidz gym. They quickly formed a team--training together and helping one another overcome all kinds of obstacles on the journey to Junior Ninja Champion. It's surreal but exciting to watch themselves on TV, and the show is a huge hit. Now, Izzy and JJ...
Author
Publisher
Montlake Romance
Language
English
Formats
Description
TV producer Kate Geary is in unscripted heaven. She's piloting a reality series featuring her favorite self-help guru, Dr. Vivienne Brandt. The Dr. Viv--whose nuggets of wisdom helped Kate get through some of her toughest times. Thanks to Dr. Viv, Kate is almost on the verge of figuring everything out. That is, until bookstore owner Jonah Porter, the superhot book nerd Kate just spent an amazing date with, appears at the show's first meeting.
29) Faking reality
Author
Publisher
Tor Teen
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old reality TV star Dakota grapples with the fact that her entire life is public fodder while at the same time she is wrestling with her feelings for her best friend Leo, who is dealing with his own issues at home.
Author
Series
Adventures of Arnie the doughnut volume 3
Publisher
Square Fish, Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Square Fish edition: 2017.
Language
English
Description
Arnie the talking doughnut and Peezo participate in a television game show, competing against other local teams in a series of challenges which include facing Nick "The Pumpernator" Pumpernickel, and still manage to solve a mystery.
Author
Series
My weirdtastic school volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
While attending the live taping of a hilarious Saturday morning kids TV show, A.J. and his friends must figure out what to do when the host, Uncle Fred, whose childlike behavior isn't an act, refuses to grow up!
32) En llamas
Author
Series
Publisher
Molino
Pub. Date
2010
Language
Español
Description
By winning the annual Hunger Games, District 12 tributes Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark have secured a life of safety and plenty for themselves and their families, but because they won by defying the rules, they unwittingly become the faces of an impending rebellion.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Television producer Laurie Moran and her fiancée, Alex Buckley, the former host of her investigative television show, are just days away from their midsummer wedding, when things take a dark turn. Alex's seven-year-old nephew, Johnny, vanishes from the beach. A search party begins and witnesses recall Johnny playing in the water and collecting shells behind the beach shack, but no one remembers seeing him after the morning. As the sun sets, Johnny's...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Everly Winters is perfectly happy to navigate life like a good neutral paint color: appreciated but unnoticed. That's why she's still a receptionist instead of exploring a career in art, why she lurks but never posts on the forums for her favorite makeover show, On the Plus Side, and why she's crushing so hard on her forever-unattainable co-worker. When no one notices you, they can't reject you or insist you're too much. This plan is working perfectly...
35) Chomp
Author
Publisher
Yearling
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
When the difficult star of the reality television show "Expedition Survival" disappears while filming an episode in the Florida Everglades using animals from the wildlife refuge run by Wahoo Crane's family, Wahoo and classmate Tuna Gordon set out to find him while avoiding Tuna's gun-happy father.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Amy will do anything to revive her ailing restaurant, including hiring a former reality-show finalist with good connections and a lot to prove. But her hopes that Sophie’s skills and celebrity status would bring her restaurant back from the brink of failure are beginning to wane… Sophie just wants to cook. She doesn’t want to constantly post on social media for her dead-in-the-water reality TV career, she doesn’t want to deal with Amy’s...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Teenage sisters Eila and Mallika Das are attending a summer camp where the campers are trying out for minor parts in a romance/detective television show set in Regency times--but when Eila meets the handsome Rahul it is clear that there is plenty of drama to be had outside of the screenplay.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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"--
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