Talent (Talent #1)

By Zoey Dean

Subjects: Talent scouts in fiction, Ability, Scouts and scouting, fiction, Middle schools in fiction, Cliques (Sociology), Talent scouts, Friendship, fiction, Friendship in fiction, Middle schools, Los angeles (calif.), fiction, Schools, fiction, Best friends in fiction, Fiction, Schools in fiction, Children's fiction, Ability in fiction, School stories, Juvenile fiction, Schools, Best friends, Friendship

Description: 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