Catch a Falling Star

by Kim Culbertson

Overview

A deliciously charming novel about finding true love . . . and yourself.

Nothing ever happens in Little, CA. Which is just the way 17-year-old Carter Moon likes it. But when Hollywood arrives to film a movie starring former child star-turned public relations mess Adam Jakes, everything changes. Utterly annoyed, Carter feels like the only girl not buying what Hollywood's selling. Then Carter gets an offer she can't refuse: play the part of Adam's girlfriend while he's in Little, to improve his public image, and take home a hefty paycheck, which her family desperately needs. So instead of a summer hanging out with friends and working, Carter begrudgingly poses for the tabloids but soon finds that Adam isn't who she thought. Worse yet, she might actually be falling for him. As they grow closer, their relationship walks a blurry line between what's real and what's fake; and Carter must open her eyes to the scariest of unexplored worlds - her future. Can Carter figure out what she wants out of life AND get the boy? Or are there no Hollywood endings in real life?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780545627054
Publisher:	Scholastic, Inc.
Publication date:	04/29/2014
Sold by:	Scholastic, Inc.
Format:	eBook
Pages:	304
File size:	8 MB
Age Range:	12 - 17 Years

About the Author

Kim Culbertson is the author of The Wonder of Us; The Possibility of Now; Catch a Falling Star; Instructions for a Broken Heart, a Northern California Book Award winner; and Songs for a Teenage Nomad. She lives in Northern California with her husband and daughter, her favorite travel companions. For more about Kim, visit www.kimculbertson.com.

Read an Excerpt

Stop it, stop it, stop it, I told myself. I could not fall for this guy, not a guy who had approximately 16,437 individual fan clubs online. I dropped my head back onto my folded hands, my hearthammering.Pull it together, Carter, I told myself. This was a job. It wasn’t real. None of this was real. Of course, the more I told myself this, repeated it over and over into the warmth of the river rock, the more I realized what a big liar I was. Because it was feeling dangerously real to me.

Editorial Reviews

Praise for Catch a Falling Star :

"Culbertson writes with sensitivity and sympathy, crafting an entertaining but perceptive character study." — KirkusReviews

"Culbertson is a capable writer, and she gives Carter a good heart that shines through in the way Carter handles her friendships and that also catches Adam's eye." — Publishers Weekly

From the Publisher

2014-01-15
When a movie company comes to shoot in a picturesque California town, the movie star's manager pays a local girl to pose as the star's girlfriend in this heartfelt romance. Seventeen-year-old Carter happily works in her family's small cafe in Little, Calif. Although she's a talented dancer, she has no ambition to leave her beautiful town, and she certainly doesn't care about movie stars. Carter's brother, John, has become a compulsive gambler, plunging the family into debt, so despite her disdain for Hollywood, Carter can't resist the large sum of money troubled teen star Adam Jakes' manager offers her. Naturally, as they spend time together on their mock dates, Carter begins to fall for Adam, who turns out to be a nice guy despite his drop-dead-handsome looks and Hollywood background. As an actor familiar with the trials of artists, he gives her some insight into the reasons she stopped dancing. Meanwhile, Carter's star-struck good friends, who don't know about the ruse, struggle to understand her emotions and actions as they gaze on stars in the night sky, with one friend writing a stargazing blog that integrates Carter's experiences with both types of stars. Culbertson writes with sensitivity and sympathy, crafting an entertaining but perceptive character study. Written with a sure hand and keen insight. (Romance. 12-16)

Kirkus Reviews