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Chasing starlight / Teri Bailey Black.

Black, Teri Bailey, (author.).

Summary:

"1938. The Golden Age of Hollywood. Palm trees and movie stars. Film studios pumping out musicals, westerns, and gangster films at a furious pace. Everyone wants to be a star--except society girl and aspiring astronomer Kate Hildebrand, who'd rather study them in the night sky. She's already famous after a childhood tragedy turned her into a newspaper headline. What she craves is stability. But when Kate has to move to Hollywood to live with her washed-up silent film star grandfather, she walks into a murder scene and finds herself on the front page again"--Dust jacket flap.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780765399519
  • ISBN: 0765399512
  • Physical Description: 336 pages ; 22 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Tor Teen, 2020.

Content descriptions

General Note:
"A Tom Doherty Associates book."
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes filmography and bibliographical references.
Target Audience Note:
710L Lexile
Subject: Motion picture industry > Fiction.
Elite (Social sciences) > Fiction.
Murder > Investigation > Fiction.
Grandfathers > Fiction.
Astronomers > Fiction.
Nineteen thirties > Fiction.
Young adult fiction.
Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) > Social life and customs > 20th century > Fiction.
Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) > Fiction.
Genre: Historical fiction.
Detective and mystery fiction.

Available copies

  • 5 of 5 copies available at Missouri Evergreen. (Show)
  • 3 of 3 copies available at Cass County.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 5 total copies.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Cass County Library-Drexel YA BLA 2020 (Text) 0002205665603 Young Adult Fiction Available -
Cass County Library-Harrisonville YA BLA 2020 (Text) 0002205665595 Young Adult Fiction Available -
Cass County Library-Northern Resource Center YA BLA 2020 (Text) 0002205665025 Young Adult Fiction Available -

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Chasing Starlight
Chasing Starlight
by Black, Teri Bailey
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Chasing Starlight


Movies, mansions, and murder in the Golden Age of Hollywood! Teri Bailey Black's Chasing Starlight is a historical mystery from the author of Girl at the Grave , winner of the Thriller Award for Best Young Adult Novel. 1938. The Golden Age of Hollywood. Palm trees and movie stars. Film studios pumping out musicals and gangster films at a furious pace. Everyone wants to be a star--except society girl and aspiring astronomer Kate Hildebrand. She's already famous after a childhood tragedy turned her into a newspaper headline. What she craves now is stability. But when Kate has to move to Hollywood to live with her washed-up silent film star grandfather, she walks into a murder scene and finds herself on the front page again. She suspects one of the young men boarding in her grandfather's run-down mansion is the killer--or maybe even her grandfather. Now, Kate must discover the killer while working on the set of a musical--and falling in love. Will her stars align so she can catch the murderer and live the dream in Old Hollywood? Or will she find that she's just chasing starlight?

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