It’s all about talent in LA: who has it, who doesn’t, who wants it, and who can find it first!When thirteen-year-old Mac Armstrong witnesses newcomer Emily Mungler’s stellar lying-to-gain-entry performance during a movie premiere party at the Roosevelt in Hollywood, it dawns on her that her own talent is to discover it in others! So Mac and her BFFs set out to prove it by turning fresh-from- Cedartown-Iowa Emily into a box office bombshell. They’ll make deals, throw parties, crush on boys, all on the way to discovering that no matter how famous or important you are, friendship always comes first. Well, almost always. Distributed by Syndetic Solutions, Inc.

Dean (the A-List series) is as of the moment as Us Weekly when it comes to fashion and celebrity lifestyles. Her devotees will lap up this first installment of her new series, this time about the cutthroat lives of the middle-school set, daughters of Hollywood royalty. The chapters switch between four "rising eighths"--Mac, Becks, Coco and the about-to-be "discovered" Emily from Iowa. The story has zero girl-bonding sweetness and all the backstabbing, social-climbing and girls living life as if they're adults that genre fans expect and love. There may not be a single redeeming value among these mocktail-drinking characters (with the possible exception of Emily), but with name brand-dropping every other sentence, sometimes in clever prose--"What in the world did Ruby Goldman have up her cropped James Perse sleeve?"--together with super-catty dialogue and gossipy prose, the page-turning becomes compulsive. Ages 12-up. (June) Copyright 2008 Reed Business Information. From: Reed Elsevier Inc. Copyright Reed Business Information