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What happens when a movie star goes to the midwest?
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Reader reviewed by Alexandra

Jenny Greenley has always been helping people. Whether it's friends (or strangers) asking her outright for advice, or via the school newspaper's anonymous advice column, Jen always has the answers. So when Hollywood star Luke Striker comes to visit Clayton High School undercover to do research for an upcoming role, Jenny is asked to be his student guide. Even though Jen has problems of her own, such as being the least coordinated person in show choir, working on the school paper, not having had a boyfriend even though she's seventeen, and trying to get the seniors to give her Latin teacher's doll back, she agrees to it. She manages to keep Luke's identity under wraps for a while, but eventually it comes out and he's forced to leave. However, he confides in Jen that the school's hierarchy is not something she should stand for, and encourages her to make big changes in the school. After Luke leaves, everyone assumesJen is in love with him (much like her best friend Trina), but Jen's heart, like her identity as advice columnist, is something no one knows. While trying to change the school for the better, Jen thinks that she doesn't have the time or resources to really be in love, and she can't believe anyone's claims that she's the "luckiest girl in the world" for being friends with Luke Striker. But in changing the school, Jen also sees changes in herself, and she finds out that maybe there is a happy ending for her. This book shows that maybe fame is not all it's cracked up to be, and you can be happy right at home. Girls everywhere will long for a movie star at their school, and Jen as their best friend.
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