Chasing starlight / Teri Bailey Black.
"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 |
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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 |
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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 | - |
Chasing Starlight
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Summary
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?