Starring Jules (in drama-rama) (Starring Jules #2)

by Beth Ain

Overview

Jules is back starring in another hilarious chapter book!

Things I Didn't Know About Being on TVby Jules Bloom 1. Shooting a pilot does not mean what you think it means.2. On TV, people live in mansions and have drivers!3. You get to completely change who you are, which everyone but me thinks I can do.4. You might have to miss the moving up play at school, which no one but me cares about. When Jules lands a role on a new TV show, she gets stuck choosing between taking part in her class moving up ceremony at school and shooting a sitcom. And that's only half the drama! With a quiet best friend who won't ever hoot and holler and an ex-best friend who may be moving to the burbs, Jules's insides are all mixed-up. She'll need a little bit of nerve and a whole lot of pizzazz if she wants to make it through the last month of second grade without turning into a drama queen!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780545578028
Publisher:	Scholastic, Inc.
Publication date:	08/27/2013
Series:	Starring Jules , #2
Sold by:	Scholastic, Inc.
Format:	eBook
Pages:	176
Lexile:	870L (what's this?)
File size:	21 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.
Age Range:	7 - 10 Years

About the Author

A Pennsylvania girl at heart, Beth Ain fell in love with life in New York City, and she loves trying to capture the essence of family life there. Thankfully, she now has the benefits of both city and small town life, having settled in Port Washington, NY, where she lives very happily with her husband and their two kids.

Read an Excerpt

From Starring Jules (in Drama-rama)I wake up with a giant pain in my stomach. "Mommy!" I yell, which does not bring my mom, but it does bring my brother."What, Jules?" he says with his hands asking the question, like a grown-up. Sometimes I think Big Henry is more like a parent than a little boy. "Tell Mommy I have a Charlotte-ache," I say.Big Henry leaves and I pull the covers over my head and wait."A Charlotte-ache?" my mom says, standing over my head. She has not yet pulled the covers off of me, and I know it's coming. I nod."So, we're talking about a stomachache, right?" she asks.I nod again."A stomachache because you have to go to school and tell Charlotte that you are not filming your part in the movie today?"I nod again and I can't believe she hasn't pulled the covers off yet. I feel like I might suffocate. I picture the ocean in Florida and getting sucked away by the undertow and I start to panic. I sit straight up and throw the covers off of me. "Why didn't you pull off my covers? I WAS DROWNING!" I say in a very loud voice, louder than my mother is comfortable with."Excuse me?" she says in her about-to-freak-out voice.I start to cry. "She is going to make fun of me," I say. My ex-best friend, Charlotte (Stinkytown) Pinkerton, is just waiting for me to fail at being an actor. "And then she is going to tell me that she knows Hollywood and that this means there will be no movie and that I will never be a movie star and that at least it was nice while it lasted."

Editorial Reviews

Praise for Starring Jules (As Herself) :

• "Ain gives Jules a truly funny narrative voice; her personality, misunderstandings, and tendency to overthink things are the driving force behind the story…"-- Publishers Weekly, starred review

"Debut author Ain introduces a new chapter-book darling with pizzazz and quite a stage presence." -- Kirkus Reviews

From the Publisher

Second-grader Jules Bloom returns for another audition (Starring Jules (as Herself), 2013)--this time for a television sitcom--with New York City–sized tension and hilarity. Full of energy and charisma, Jules has been asked to audition for a TV show about a New York City family; she would be the youngest of three siblings. Ain gives this bubbly girl a distinctive voice ("I am having so many feelings inside my body that I feel like a pan of shake-over-the-stovetop popcorn") that brims with questions and confidence. Jules skitters from problem to problem like a city cab, balancing her audition with another project: cheering up her new friend Elinor, who is from London. Things are busy at school, too: Her ex–best friend Charlotte continues to steal the limelight there, receiving the plum role in the end-of-the-year play. Soon, the juggling of school, friends and an acting career produces conflicts that even her creative family cannot solve. The multiple problems nearly overwhelm the story; they keep the dramatic tension high, but they also leave a few quick loose ends to tie at the conclusion. Still, Jules is a lovable star with good friends and a supportive family, living a frenetic city life that is constantly entertaining. Fans of Clementine and Gooney Bird Greene will look forward to the next book in the series. (Fiction. 6-9)

Kirkus Reviews