It's a small discrepancy, but it's enough to bother the most discretionary reader. The main character - who wants to be the first kid star on the Food Network - clearly states that she does not use paper pan liners as depicted in the photo. If course, the first error a reader can make is judging a book by its cover, but I can't help but point out a conflict between the cover photo and the text of the novel itself. The cover depicts a middle school aged girl, wearing a shooting star apron and holding a plate of cupcakes. And that’s just for starters! Tara’s adventures take her and her new friends to places they’d never thought they’d find, some in the real world, and a lot deep inside themselves.Ĭlose to Famous is Joan Bauer's contribution to the 2013/4 list of Mark Twain Award nominees. Like losing-her- immortal-soul kind of bad. If Tara can’t collect thirteen mysterious objects for the old woman in time for her rapidly approaching thirteenth birthday, the consequences will be REALLY BAD. There’s a boy who sings in the bottom of an empty pool, two best friends who use blackboards to Communicate.and a green-eyed girl who may-or may not-be dating the world’s hottest teen movie star.ĭue to another huge lapse in judgment, Tara finds herself beholden to perhaps the strangest person of all: Angelina D’Angelo.

Tara quickly learns that Emily isn’t even remotely the strangest person in town. As punishment for her misdeed, Tara’s parents send her to the sleepy little town of Willow Falls to stay with relatives she hardly knows, including her eleven-year-old cousin Emily, who, the last time they were together, ate an entire stick of glue. It doesn’t take long for Tara Brennan to realize that breaking into school to steal a goat while wielding a can of pepper spray is not a good idea.

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