Olive Becomes Famous (and Hopes She Can Become Un-Famous)

by Megan Atwood, Gareth Llewhellin (Illustrator)

Overview

Olive is going to be in a commercial! The only problem is that Olive can't land the gymnastics stunt for it, and she is afraid to tell the truth. Meanwhile, her cross-country pen pal, Molly, has started taken acting classes and is super jealous of Olive, but doesn't want to tell her. Molly goes on a mission to get on a commercial, too, with her new friend from class. Follow the secrets and threatened friendship through reading the jealous emails and alternating first-person points of view to discover Olive's plan to make everything right.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781515829225
Publisher:	Capstone
Publication date:	08/01/2018
Series:	Dear Molly, Dear Olive
Pages:	96
Product dimensions:	5.75(w) x 7.50(h) x (d)
Age Range:	6 - 8 Years

About the Author

Megan Atwood is a writer and professor with over 45 books published. She lives in New Jersey where she wrangles cats, dreams up ridiculous stories, and thinks of ways to make kids laugh all day.

Lucy Fleming lives and works in a small town in England with an animator and a black cat. She has been an avid doodler and bookworm since early childhood, drawing every day, bringing characters and stories to life. She never dreamed that illustrating would be her job! When not at her desk, Lucy loves to be outdoors in the sunshine with a cup of hot tea — doodling, of course.

Table of Contents

Olive sees stars — Molly's method and madness — Olive twists her story around — Molly makes a plan — Olive flips for her friends — Molly makes it happen — Olive mostly, sort of, almost comes clean — Molly comes clean — Olive makes a plan — Molly mopes but then un-mopes — Olive springs into savings — Molly's big break — Olive and Molly together.

Interviews

features a first-person and dual-perspective narrative, the text includes the letters as a central part of the story, teaches about the consequences of not telling the truth, readers with long-distance friends will relate to the main characters, provides examples of persistence when things get hard