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Describes the failures of fourteen historical, famous achievers, including Isaac Newton, Thomas Edison, Vincent Van Gogh, Ann Boleyn, and Amelia Earhart.

Trying to fit in despite having a loud, embarrassing best friend, eleven-year-old Talia becomes a commentator on her middle school's closed-circuit television program and turns the tables on her mother, a talk show host who has been revealing Talia's most humiliating experiences for years.

This illustrated survey book is a collection of forty diverse men who helped their communities.

Both of sixteen-year-old Cammi's parents are stars in Mexico, but everything changes when her mother accepts a role in an American sitcom.

Provides biographies of over thirty musicians, actors, authors, athletes, activists, scientists, politicians, businesspeople, and others, such as U2's lead singer Bono, glass artist Dale Chihuly, young actress Dakota Fanning, and race car driver Danica Patrick, covering their youths, education, career highlights, family lives, and hobbies.

Rihanna is known world over as a music icon, but she is more than just a pop princess. Over the past ten years, Rihanna has worked hard to break stereotypes, develop a definitive style, and maintain creative control of her music. In the process, she's won dozens of awards, including eight Grammys. Young readers will learn about the musician and businesswoman's life through easy-to-follow text accompanied by dynamic full-color photographs, as well as direct quotes from Rihanna herself.

Presents a collection of alphabetically arranged entries that provide brief biographical profiles of twenty-six contemporary figures in entertainment, sports, art, science, business, government, and other news-making arenas. Includes entries A-K.

Feeling awkward and ugly is one of several reasons sixteen-year-old Kevin is uncomfortable with the publicity about his act of accidental heroism, but when a reporter photographs him apparently being unpatriotic, he speaks out and encourages people to think about what the symbols of freedom really mean.

There's nothing ordinary about Oakley. This bad-boy pop star's got Grammy awards, millions of fangirls and a reputation as a restless, too-charming troublemaker. But with his home life disintegrating, his music well suddenly running dry and the tabloids having a field day over his outrageous exploits, Oakley needs to show the world he's settling down and who better to help him than Vaughn, a part-time waitress trying to help her family get by?.

The "Princess of J-Pop" Toshi Adachi of Japan is getting married at your grandparents' fancy New England inn. The inn is swarming with security guards in dark suits and earpieces, and the Japanese press is going nuts. If you agree to help out, you'll get to enjoy a fun day playing outside at the party. But how well do you really know your grandparents?.