Overview
Will all Star's dreams be dashed?
The European leg of Star's tour is going well, but Star has begun having strange dreams, and she's convinced they have something to do with her family. Meanwhile, a secret she shares with fellow pop star Jade is leaked to the press and explodes into a media war between the two idols. It seems that Jade and her people will stop at nothing to discredit Star!
Star is so depressed and distracted she starts messing up onstage. Can she save her reputation, make things right with Jade, and figure out the real meaning of her dreams before she winds up ruining everything she's worked for?
Synopsis
Will all Star's dreams be dashed?
The European leg of Star's tour is going well, but Star has begun having strange dreams, and she's convinced they have something to do with her family. Meanwhile, a secret she shares with fellow pop star Jade is leaked to the press and explodes into a media war between the two idols. It seems that Jade and her people will stop at nothing to discredit Star!
Star is so depressed and distracted she starts messing up onstage. Can she save her reputation, make things right with Jade, and figure out the real meaning of her dreams before she winds up ruining everything she's worked for?
School Library Journal
Gr 4-7-This new series about a 14-year-old pop star is candy-coated popcorn that some preteens will gobble up. Star, a former unknown who lived in Pennsylvania with her grandmother, has hit the top of the charts. She doesn't seem to practice much. She succeeds easily and has created a family from her adoring manager, her tutor, her bodyguard, her stylist, and her dog. She deals with her parents' and preschool brother's tragic disappearance with sunny optimism that they will be found. If only the detectives that Star has hired could find her family, if the evil media would go away and her jealous rivals wouldn't pull mean-spirited stunts, she could live happily ever after. In the first book, Eddie Urbane, one of her competitors, kidnaps her pug, Dudley Do Wrong. In the second book, the other top reigning pop princess, Jade, and her irascible manager bristle about a comment that Star makes that gets misquoted and media hell breaks loose. It leads to the publicizing of her family's disappearance and adds some necessary tension to these otherwise bland offerings. Readers who don't want to think too much will love these books.-Tina Zubak, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, PA Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.