| Hollywood Nobody (Hollywood Nobody Series, Book 1) | 
 enlarge | Author: Lisa Samson
Publisher: Th1nk Books
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  15 reviews
Sales Rank: 146906
Media: Paperback
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Pages: 221
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Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.5 x 0.6
ISBN: 1600060919
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9781600060915
ASIN: 1600060919
Publication Date: August 30, 2007
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Product Description
Fifteen-year-old Scotty Dawn has spent her young life on the road, traveling to movie sets with her single mom, Charley, a food designer. Yet even though Scotty is wise beyond her years, she still struggles to find her identity. Complicating matters is a mother who offers no guidance and a father she's never met. Now Scotty is determined to discover what she wants from life. She's even documenting the journey on her "Hollywood Nobody" blog. But as Scotty begins to find dark answers to tough questions, will her story have a happy ending? The first in a series, Hollywood Nobody is a novel for teen girls that examines real issues with honesty and humor. Enhancing the book's themes, the story includes journal and blog entries as well as screenplay dialog, providing an engaging experience for readers.
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 And the winner is... October 1, 2008
To most teens in America, Hollywood stars are royalty. In her Christy award winning young adult novel, Hollywood Nobody, Lisa Samson shows us that celebrities are people, just like everyone else.
Blogger Scotty Dawn has a unique life. She lives in an RV because her mom, Charley, is a food stylist. The two travel from movie set to movie set giving Scotty the up-close-and-personal on many of Hollywood's A-list. She secretly blogs about these superstars on her Hollywood Nobody blog, which is growing in popularity every day.
But Scotty is lonely. On the set of her mother's latest job, Scotty makes friends with newbie actor, Seth Haas, but is disappointed when he starts dating snotty "it girl" Karissa Bonano. Scotty keeps her distance from the new "couple," thankful she's able to vent incognito via her Hollywood Nobody blog.
When Charley starts getting suspicious phone calls, Scotty wonders what's up? Why do they always have to run? Who is Charley hiding from? And does it have anything to do with Scotty's father?
Scotty Dawn is a joy to read. I loved her antics from her blogging rants to her acting debut as a life-size mustard bottle. For a quick and fun read, with some surprise plot twists, Hollywood Nobody is a winner. Highly Recommended.
Check out book two: Finding Hollywood Nobody (Hollywood Nobody Series, Book 2).
Sassy,smart and sincere, here's a book that won't let you roll your eyes, they'll be glued to the page! September 19, 2008
Aren't YA books written by the same moms and dads their readers declare out of touch? Read this one, and you'll either swear your best friend collaborated with the author, or wish to the high heavens you had a friend as cool as Scotty. She has guts, is plenty confident about plenty of things and somehow avoids adding obnoxious to her list of descriptions.
I'm 41, bought this for my 14 year old who hates to read, and am now convinced this book will forever cure her. I peeked inside to get a feel for the story and a few hours later closed the back cover, the book completely read. I write this review on the heels of just finishing John Steinbeck's East of Eden and can say without hesitation that I didn't have to dumb down to read this YA novel. I just may, in fact, have been reading up. Lisa Samson should be like brand recognition, if her name is on the cover, it's definitely brilliant.
YA Fiction for more than just Young Adults May 2, 2008
Hollywood Nobody was a great and fairly fast read and I cannot wait to read the next few in the series. The story of Scotty is told through many different ways with using just plain first person narrative, her diary, and her blog entries. Scotty is a diverse 15 year old that only wants what anyone at any age wants, to not be lonely. [author: Lisa Samson] did a great job of really sharing Scotty's life through this book. I can relate to Scotty and see where she gets her emotions and her strengths from. Not only do you get to read about a little Hollywood, but you also get a little romance, some family love, some suspense and extreme plot twists, but there is also this little mention of Christ's love. It is just enough that I do not think this book would scare anyone away, but perhaps interest them in just the slightest to be curious for a little more information. Which in my experience tends to be the best way to be an evangelical.
Hollywood Somebody!! May 1, 2008
I loved Hollywood Nobody from the quirky hippie vegan mom to Scotty, the mature, down-to-earth teen, living a not-so-grounded life on the road with a mom who is a food designer for Hollywood. Through Scotty's anonymous blog about Hollywood and the people in it, we come to know more about Scotty and her mom who are drastically different from the people she's grown up around on movie sets.
Though Scotty is easy going and accepts her life on the road and enjoys finding ways to expand her homeschool education, she senses some things are just not right and her mom seems to harboring a secret about her father-whoever he may be.
Scotty's voice is authentic and you can't help feel and route for her when the hottie hunk of Hollywood befriends her on the set. I'm staring at the sequel, Finding Hollywood Nobody, and I can't wait to continue Scotty's journey especially since at the end of the first book she received some life alerting news. But I'm not going to tell you what it is. You'll have to read it for yourself!
 A wonderful and positive message for YA readers December 27, 2007
With a style as bright and breezy as freshly washed clothes hanging on a line, author Lisa Samson's new offering, Hollywood Nobody, is a joy to read. Her first-person narrative is so authentically adolescent it sparkles and cracks with all the energy of a teenage sleepover.
This book carries the promise of a great new series because of Samson's solid depiction of her new, irrepressible and tantalizingly complex protagonist, Scotty Dawn--a little bit Scout in To Kill a Mockingbird, and a little bit Holden Caulfield in Catcher in the Rye, Scotty is a delight.
Along with her slightly ditzy, overage hippy mom, Charley, a food stylist for the movie industry, Scotty moves from one movie location to the next, with only a small RV to call home. Much of the time, it's difficult to tell who's raising who, since it's Scotty's natural common sense and ingenuity that keep them out of trouble.
Scotty longs for the roots, routine, and relationships that most teenagers find so annoying. And for me, the most charming aspect of Hollywood Nobody is how creatively Scotty uses her talents to find these missing elements in her life.
Charley doesn't provide for her education so Scotty creates her own challenging curricular. Her vegan mother won't allow cheese, Scotty's favorite indulgence, so Scotty enlists the help of the servers at fast food joints to disguise the contraband. Scotty has no grandparents, she finds her own meat-eating grandparents in RV parks. But Scotty's creativity can't get her mother to reveal the secret she holds that keeps them living on the edge.
This is the second young adult, Christian fiction book I've read recently. The first book, which shall remain nameless, I decided not to review. The story was good but the author was so heavy-handed and preachy in her enthusiasm to convert every reader that I was completely turned off.
On the other hand, Lisa Samson proves talented authors can send a positive Christian message without a club--and to that I say Amen!
Armchair Interviews agrees.
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