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  • Ruby Parker: Film Star

    Rowan Coleman

    language (HarperCollinsChildren'sBooks, Oct. 15, 2009)
    Join teenage starlet Ruby Parker as she leaves Soapland and progresses to her first major movie audition! Is there really life after soap? Find out in this hilarious novel for star-struck girls.Child star Ruby Parker is heading for her very first proper audition with one of the most famous film directors in the world. If she is successful, Ruby could win a good part in a box office smash to be watched by millions!People keep telling her that if she doesn't GET the role, it's not the end of the world. But inside, Ruby isn't sure that she really believes that…Warm, funny and starry bright, this perfect follow-up to Ruby Parker Soap Star is perfect for fame-struck girls.
  • Ruby Parker: Film Star

    Rowan Coleman

    (HarperCollinsChildren'sBooks, Sept. 9, 2011)
    Join teenage starlet Ruby Parker as she leaves Soapland and progresses to her first major movie audition! Is there really life after soap? Find out in this hilarious novel for star-struck girls.Child star Ruby Parker is heading for her very first proper audition with one of the most famous film directors in the world. If she is successful, Ruby could win a good part in a box office smash to be watched by millions!People keep telling her that if she doesn't GET the role, it's not the end of the world. But inside, Ruby isn't sure that she really believes that…Warm, funny and starry bright, this perfect follow-up to Ruby Parker Soap Star is perfect for fame-struck girls.
  • Ruby Parker: Soap Star

    Rowan Coleman

    eBook (HarperCollinsChildren’sBooks, May 4, 2010)
    Child soap-star Ruby Parker discovers fame isn’t all it’s cracked up to be!Ruby Parker has been acting in the glamorous soap, Kensington Heights, for most of her life. She is stunned when she overhears the script writers discussing whether to kill her character off, or to replace Ruby with a more beautiful actress! She has always felt like the ugly duckling compared to her stunning co-stars, but now more than ever she sees that everyone is disappointed how the cute, chubby dimpled four year old has morphed into a lumpy pimpled fourteen year old. Ruby is feeling more self-conscious than ever, and to top it all off, she discovers she’s got to have her first screen kiss – with the oh-so-gorgeous Justin de Souza, the soap’s hunk.What with dealing with fame on a national level, having her first ever kiss in front of cameras and dealing with everyone’s jealousy at stage school, Ruby doesn’t think things can get any harder. Then her parents give her the most unexpected (and worst) news yet…
  • Ruby Parker: Musical Star

    Rowan Coleman

    language (HarperCollinsChildren'sBooks, March 27, 2010)
    Multii-talented teen starlet Ruby Parker makes her debut in the theatre – but how will she cope with the demands of being in a musical?Still reeling from her less-than-perfect Hollywood debut, Ruby Parker has left the Sylvia LIghthouse Academy and is looking forward to an ordinary life at an everyday school with no drama attached. Imagine her horror, then, when she discovers that she has to audition for the school choir - and gets chosen!Even worse, she discovers that the school choir is entering the national competition to appear as the chorus for a new musical to be broadcast on live TV. Not only that, but the musical was created by arch-rival Jade Caruso’s rock star dad, who is auditioning for the lead – alongside Ruby’s ex-boyfriend Danny Harvey!Ruby Parker may think she’s given up on showbiz , but one thing is certain – it hasn’t given up on her!
  • Ruby Parker: Shooting Star

    Rowan Coleman

    language (HarperCollinsChildren'sBooks, June 8, 2010)
    Young actress Ruby Parker takes on her biggest, bravest challenge yet – in her return to Hollywood!Fresh from her success in the production of Spotlight! The Musical, Ruby and her closest friends are heading off to Hollywood to audition for parts in the film version of the show.After Ruby’s last experience in Tinseltown, she’s scared inside but totally ready to take on the biz and all that entails. What she doesn’t anticipate are the dramas that begin to unfold closer to home…
  • Ruby Parker: Soap Star

    Rowan Coleman

    Paperback (Collins, May 3, 2005)
    Child soap-star, Ruby Parker, discovers being famous when you're a teenager isn't all it's cracked up to be. Spotty and gawky, all her fan mail is about viewers' problems - not how much they adore and fancy her! Ruby Parker has been acting in the glamorous soap, Kensington Heights, for most of her life. She is stunned when she overhears the script writers discussing whether to kill her character off, or to replace Ruby with a more beautiful actress! She has always felt like the ugly duckling compared to her stunning co-stars, but now more than ever she sees that everyone is disappointed how the cute, chubby dimpled four year old has morphed into a lumpy pimpled fourteen year old. Ruby is feeling more self-conscious than ever, and to top it all off, she discovers she's got to have her first screen kiss - with the oh-so-gorgeous Justin de Souza, the soap's hunk. What with dealing with fame on a national level, having her first ever kiss in front of cameras and dealing with everyone's jealousy at stage school, Ruby doesn't think things can get any harder. Then her parents give her the most unexpected (and worst) news yet!
  • Ruby Parker: Soap Star

    Rowan Coleman

    Paperback (HarperCollinsChildren’sBooks, Sept. 16, 2011)
    Child soap-star Ruby Parker discovers fame isn’t all it’s cracked up to be!Ruby Parker has been acting in the glamorous soap, Kensington Heights, for most of her life. She is stunned when she overhears the script writers discussing whether to kill her character off, or to replace Ruby with a more beautiful actress! She has always felt like the ugly duckling compared to her stunning co-stars, but now more than ever she sees that everyone is disappointed how the cute, chubby dimpled four year old has morphed into a lumpy pimpled fourteen year old. Ruby is feeling more self-conscious than ever, and to top it all off, she discovers she’s got to have her first screen kiss – with the oh-so-gorgeous Justin de Souza, the soap’s hunk.What with dealing with fame on a national level, having her first ever kiss in front of cameras and dealing with everyone’s jealousy at stage school, Ruby doesn’t think things can get any harder. Then her parents give her the most unexpected (and worst) news yet…
  • Ruby Parker: Shooting Star

    Rowan Coleman

    (HarperCollinsChildren'sBooks, Sept. 9, 2011)
    Young actress Ruby Parker takes on her biggest, bravest challenge yet – in her return to Hollywood!Fresh from her success in the production of Spotlight! The Musical, Ruby and her closest friends are heading off to Hollywood to audition for parts in the film version of the show.After Ruby’s last experience in Tinseltown, she’s scared inside but totally ready to take on the biz and all that entails. What she doesn’t anticipate are the dramas that begin to unfold closer to home…
  • Ruby Parker: Musical Star

    Rowan Coleman

    (HarperCollinsChildren'sBooks, Sept. 9, 2011)
    Multii-talented teen starlet Ruby Parker makes her debut in the theatre – but how will she cope with the demands of being in a musical?Fresh from her success in the production of Spotlight! The Musical, Ruby and her closest friends are heading off to Hollywood to audition for parts in the film version of the show.After Ruby's last experience in Tinseltown, she's scared inside but totally ready to take on the biz and all that entails. What she doesn't anticipate are the dramas that begin to unfold closer to home…
  • Ruby Parker: Soap Star

    Rowan Coleman

    Paperback (HarperCollinsChildren’sBooks, Sept. 16, 2011)
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