Famous

A teenage paparazzo makes a dangerous discovery in this timely look at celebrity that is likely to be snapped up and make a lasting impression ( School Library Journal ). All Jamie Gordon wants to do is to take pictures of celebrities...and maybe to become famous herself. Shes only fourteen, but already her work is sought after by fanzines and websites, and shes invited to all the best parties. And now she has the chance of a lifetime: She has been invited to spend a week with Willow Twine, taking pictures of the teen superstars new chaste life. But when Jamie gets her hands on some sensational shots of Willow, shes suddenly in over her head. The pictures could make her careerand destroy Willows. It seems like everyones eager to get their hands on the photos, and Jamie has to decide what she really wants...and what shes willing to pay to get it. At fourteen, Jamie Gordon took some photos of a famous models embarrassing moment and sold them to a tabloid, which led to her own first taste of fame. Now sixteen and a professional paparazzo, shes in LA to document a week in the life of starlet Willow Twine. Jamie feels as if she and Willow are friends, and she considers staying in California to focus her energy on becoming the Annie Leibovitz of the LA young actor scene. But her boyfriend, Nasim, back home is a complicating factor, and so is the mysterious lack of communication from Avy, a close friend and aspiring actor who ran away to LA eight months earlier. A mystery and moral dilemma ensues when Jamie discovers six photos on her camera that could ruin Willows career. Jamie knows selling the photos would make her a fortune and send her own to new heights. But how did those photos get there? And what should she do with them? Sixteen-year-old Jamie Gordon had a taste of praise and recognition at age fourteen when her unflattering photograph of an actress was published, but as she pursues her dream of being a celebrity photographer, she becomes immersed in the dark side of fame. Lonely and shy, ten-year-old May Ellen Bird has no idea what awaits her when she falls into the lake and enters a world few people have ever seen, the Ever After, home of ghosts and the Bogeyman. The first of three novels about May Bird and her adventures in the ghostly world of The Ever After