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Author
Series
Breaking news volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In this story (told in the form of a television broadcast), bears emerge from hibernation demanding to be fed."
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In Marlowe Banks, Redesigned, Jacqueline Firkins wonderfully captures the messiness of failure, forgiveness, and embracing a second chance on life and love. Marlowe Banks's life has come apart at the seams. Her engagement ended abruptly. Her latest costume design was shredded by critics. Her student loans are overdue. Her parents have never been more disappointed. Desperate to hide from her failures, Marlowe flees New York City to embrace invisibility...
4) This just in
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
WKBA news in Chicago is reeling. Their ratings are the lowest in town, and company morale has plummeted. At the end of their ropes, five women band together to correct injustices and hopefully shoot WKBA up the ratings chart. Their ideas are inventive, and their convictions are infectious, but they'll need to crack the good-old-boys network before they ever get a chance to prove themselves. Through Yolanda Joe's sharp observations about this cutthroat...
Author
Series
Breaking news volume 2
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In this story, told in the form of a television broadcast, the bears and their cub catch two escaping prisoners who are hiding at the carnival.
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
From the winner of the Man Booker Prize for The Gathering. "Clever, unsettling, and thoroughly modern . . . We can hear echoes of the Joyce of Dubliners." -The New York Times Book Review
The second novel to be published in America by widely acclaimed Irish author Anne Enright, The Wig My Father Wore is a spry, hilarious novel about parents, love, religion, and the absurdities of them all.
Grace is a young Dubliner who works on a television show...
Author
Series
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
This triumphant conclusion to A. S. Byatt's great quartet of postwar English life and manners stands on its own as a magical and thought-provoking novel of ideas made flesh. Frederica, the spirited heroine of The Virgin in the Garden, Still Life, and Babel Tower, falls almost by accident into a career in television in London, while tumultuous events in her home county of Yorkshire threaten to split her world. In the late 1960s, the languages of religion,...
Author
Series
My weirdest school volume 2
Publisher
Harper/HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"In this second book in the new My Weirdest School series, the students of Ella Mentry School are about to get a wonderful gift--a million dollars! A.J. and the gang vote to create an in-school, state-of-the-art TV station so the morning announcements can be broadcast to all the classes. There's even enough money to hire Ms. Cuddy, a new digital media arts teacher who knows a thing or two about broadcasting. But soon Ms. Cuddy decides the ratings...
12) Deep doo-doo
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
c1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When they discover the power of the transmitter they built, eleven-year-old Bennet and his best friend Pete send out television broadcasts using Pete's dog to challenge the current governor in his bid for reelection.
13) Hard news
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
Rune is an aspiring filmmaker with more ambition than political savvy, paying her dues as an assistant cameraperson for the local news. But she's got her eyes on the prize, the network's hot news magazine, Current Events-and she's got the story she knows will get her there. Poking around in the video archives, Rune spots a taped interview with Randy Boggs, who's doing hard time in Attica for a murder he claims he didn't commit. Rune can't say exactly...
14) NSFW: a novel
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A novel about a young woman trying to succeed in Hollywood without selling her soul. With electrifying prose and a darkly humorous voice, NSFW is an unflinching exploration of the grey area between empowerment and complicity, and an unforgettable portrait of what success costs in today's world"--
From the outside, the unnamed protagonist in NSFW appears the vision of success. She has landed an entry-level position at a leading TV network that thousands...
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Maddy Carson loves her job as a Script Supervisor on the hit show, The Wrong Doctor, as much as she loathes fake boobs, juice cleanses, oversized designer sunglasses, and all other things "Hollywood." Super-organized and down-to-earth, Maddy has maintained a strict dating rule throughout her ten years in L.A.: "No Actors!" But she is seeing someone in the industry, Craig, one of the Executive Producers for the show... and technically her boss. ...