Claim to Fame

Claim to Fame
Claim to Fame  
Author(s) Margaret Peterson Haddix
Country United States
Language English
Publisher Simon & Schuster
Publication date 2009
Media type Hardback
Pages 272 pp
ISBN 1416939172
OCLC Number 263146686

Claim to Fame is a novel by Margaret Peterson Haddix published by Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing in 2009.[1]

Plot summary

It was a talent that came out of nowhere. One day, Lindsay Scott was on the top of the world, the child star of a hit TV show. The next day her fame had turned into torture. Every time anyone said anything about her, anywhere in the world, she heard it: praise, criticism, back-stabbing… Lindsay had what looked like a nervous breakdown and vanished from the public eye. Now she’s sixteen, and a tabloid newspaper claims that her own father is holding her hostage. The truth is much stranger, but that tabloid article sets off a chain of events that forces Lindsay to finally confront who she really is.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b Haddix, Margaret Peterson. "Claim to Fame on haddixbooks.com". http://www.haddixbooks.com/books/claim.html. Retrieved 2009-07-08. 

External links

v · d · eNovels by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Shadow Children sequence
Among the Hidden (1998) · Among the Impostors (2001) · Among the Betrayed (2002) · Among the Barons (2003) · Among the Brave (2004) · Among the Enemy (2005) · Among the Free (2006) · Characters
The Missing series
Found (2008) · Sent (2009) · Sabotaged (2010) · Torn (2011)
Other
Running Out of Time (1995) · Don't You Dare Read This, Mrs. Dunphrey (1996) · Leaving Fishers (1997) · Just Ella (1999) · Turnabout (2000) · The Girl With 500 Middle Names (2001) · Takeoffs and Landings (2001) · Because of Anya (2002) · Escape from Memory (2003) · Say What (2004) · The House on the Gulf (2004) · Double Identity (2005) · Dexter the Tough (2007) · Uprising (2007) · Palace of Mirrors (2008) · Claim to Fame (2009) · Into the Gauntlet (2010)

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