A starlet's secret to a sensational afterlife
Call Number
- FICTION KULP TEEN (EAS)
Edition
First edition.
Publication Information
New York : Holiday House, [2023]
Physical Description
347 pages ; 22 cm
Audience
Grades 10-12. Holiday House.
Summary
A budding starlet and her handsome-but-moody co-star go from bitter enemies to reluctant partners when they get tangled up in the disappearance of a beautiful young actress in 1930s Hollywood. Eighteen-year-old Henrietta arrives in Los Angeles in 1934 with dreams of trading her boring life for stardom. She's determined to make it as an actress, despite her family's doubts and rumors of would-be starlets gone missing. And by the skin of her teeth, she pulls it off! A serendipitous job offer arrives and Henrietta finds herself on a whirlwind publicity tour for a major film role--with a vexingly unpleasant actor tapped by the studio to be her fake boyfriend. But fierce Henrietta has more in common with brooding Declan than she realizes. They both have gifts that they are hiding, for fear of being labeled strange: he is immune to injury and she can speak to ghosts. Together, they might be the only people in Hollywood who can do something about these poor missing girls. And in doing so--they might just fall in love for real.
Subjects
- Motion picture actors and actresses > Juvenile fiction.
- Missing persons > Juvenile fiction.
- Interpersonal relations > Juvenile fiction.
- Actors and actresses > Fiction.
- Missing persons > Fiction.
- Ghosts > Fiction.
- Ability > Fiction.
- Interpersonal relations > Fiction.
- Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) > Juvenile fiction.
- Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) > Fiction.