NEXT DOOR TO A STAR
by Krysten Lindsay
Hager
Genre: Young Adult
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SYNOPSIS ★
Hadley Daniels is tired of feeling
invisible.
After Hadley’s best friend moves away
and she gets on the bad side of some girls at school, she goes to spend the
summer with her grandparents in the Lake Michigan resort town of Grand Haven.
Her next door neighbor is none other than teen TV star Simone Hendrickson, who
is everything Hadley longs to be—pretty, popular, and famous—and she’s thrilled
when Simone treats her like a friend.
Being popular is a lot harder than it
looks.
It’s fun and flattering when Simone
includes her in her circle, though Hadley is puzzled about why her new friend
refuses to discuss her former Hollywood life. Caught up with Simone, Hadley
finds herself ignoring her quiet, steadfast friend, Charlotte.
To make things even more complicated,
along comes Nick Jenkins…
He’s sweet, good-looking, and Hadley can
be herself around him without all the fake drama.
However, the mean girls have
other ideas and they fill Nick’s head with lies about Hadley, sending him
running back to his ex-girlfriend and leaving Hadley heartbroken.
So when her parents decide to relocate
to Grand Haven, Hadley hopes things will change when school starts…only to be
disappointed once again.
Cliques. Back-stabbing. Love gone bad.
Is this really what it’s like to
live…Next Door To A Star?
Book trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnLXsu2c43k
Excerpt:
The school year should end right after
spring break, because all anyone can focus on is summer vacation. You can’t
learn anything new, because all you can think about is all the fun stuff you’re
going to do once you don’t have to get up at the butt crack of dawn. Summer
always seems full of possibilities.
Nothing exciting ever happens during the
school year, but maybe, during summer vacation, you could run into a hot
celebrity and he’d decide to put you in his next music video. Okay, it wasn’t
like I knew anybody that happened to, but my grandparents did live next door to
a former TV star, Simone Hendrickson, and Simone was discovered in an ice cream
parlor one summer. Of course, she lived in L.A. at the time and was already
doing plays and commercials, so the guy who discovered her had already seen her
perform. But hey, it was summer, she got discovered, and that was all that
mattered.
Amazing stuff didn’t happen to me. You
know what happened to me last summer? I stepped on a bee and had to go to the
emergency room. They’re not going to make an E! True Hollywood Story out of my life. I didn’t go on exotic
vacations—like today, I was being dragged along with my parents to my cousin’s
graduation party. Most people waited until at least the end of May before
having a grad party, but Charisma was having hers early because she was leaving
on a trip to Spain. I was dreading this party because I didn’t want to listen
to everybody talk about how smart and talented Charisma was—making me feel like
a blob in comparison—but my mom RSVP’d even though I said I’d rather die than
go. My death threats meant nothing. But still, for some strange reason, I had a
feeling this summer was going to be different.
Author Bio:
Krysten Lindsay Hager is an
obsessive reader and has never met a bookstore she didn’t like. She’s worked as
a journalist and humor essayist, and writes for teens, tweens, and adults. She
is the author of the Landry’s True Colors Series and her work has been featured
in USA Today and named as Amazon’s #1 Hot New Releases in Teen & Young
Adult Values and Virtues Fiction and Amazon’s #1 Hot New Releases in Children’s
Books on Values. She’s originally from Michigan and has lived in South Dakota,
Portugal, and southwestern Ohio. She received her master’s degree from the
University of Michigan-Flint.
Author Links:
WEBSITE: http://www.krystenlindsay.com/
INSTAGRAM: https://instagram.com/krystenlindsay/
TWITTER: https://twitter.com/KrystenLindsay
Buy links:
Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Next-Door-Krysten-Lindsay-Hager-ebook/dp/B0149HTAK0/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8
Barnes & Noble: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/next-door-to-a-star-krysten-lindsay-hager/1122588304?ean=9781680582697
Books-a-million: http://www.booksamillion.com/p/Next-Door-Star/Krysten-Lindsay-Hager/9781680582697?id=6130980443153
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