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1) Finally
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After her twelfth birthday, Rory checks off a list of things she is finally allowed to do, but unexpected consequences interfere with her involvement in the movie being shot at her school, while a weird prediction starts to make sense.
2) Ghostlight
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A summer film project turns spooky when the setting turns out to actually be haunted.
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The pressure's really piling up on Greg Heffley. His mom thinks video games are turning his brain to mush, so she wants her son to put down the controller and explore his creative side. As if that s not scary enough, Halloween's just around the corner and the frights are coming at Greg from every angle. When Greg discovers a bag of gummy worms, it sparks an idea. Can he get his mom off his back by making a movie . . . and will he become rich and famous...
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"Hollywood has come to Half Moon Bay as kid inventors Nick and Tesla find themselves on the set of a big-budget superhero movie. But someone's sabotaging the on-screen debut of their favorite comic book hero, so the brother and sister sleuths must sneak behind the scenes to save the show. Luckily, they have help from an arsenal of homemade special-effects gadgets. This cinematic saga includes instructions for creating camera gear, stunt dummies, make-up...
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Though I, Timmy Failure, have solved many notorious crimes and now wish to enjoy my retirement, my fans have begged me to turn my memoirs into a movie, an ode to my greatness. I am, however, beset by enemies, the worst of whom is Tom John John, the buffoonish movie director. What's more, my father is in town, working at a bar, which is obviously just a cover for our father-son crime-fighting partnership. And my dim-witted polar bear business partner,...
11) Box-office smash
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"Jason can't believe his luck when he opens the letter from Harmon Holt telling him he'll be interning on a movie set in LA. Even better, it's with one of his favorite horror-movie directors. But it turns out the road to the big time is paved with lots of small-time work. Can Jason check his pride and be part of the team? Can he rise above and seize his opportunity?"--Page 4 of cover.
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Identical twins Edgar and Allan Poe, the great-great-great-great-grandnephews of the famous poet who shares their name, are cast in a movie celebrating their defeat of a murderous mad scientist, but when they become the target of a deadly plot, the twins must abandon their movie star ambitions and return to fighting crime.
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Penelope Tredwell agrees to allow one of her best selling stories to be turned into a film by an untrustworthy moviemaker named Edward Gold, but when she learns that Gold is only making the film to bring his ghostly daughter back to life with a strange camera-like invention, she decides to put a stop to his madness.
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When silent movie director Larry Trimble decides to put Strongheart, a police dog, into his movies as the lead actor, he must first train him to play with toys and walk like a regular dog, but Strongheart becomes a sensation until his military training leads to trouble, and possibly the end of his career. Includes author's note on the real Strongheart.
17) It's snow joke!
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While spending winter break at a ski lodge, beginning-skier Katie finds herself in some very complicated situations when the magic wind turns her into the ski instructor.
19) Star of the show
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Acting in a film for the first time, Tessa is lonely until she meets a magic puppy who helps her make friends and meet her favorite actor.