by Jen Calonita
First published 2007
Kaitlin Burke is sixteen years old and one of the most recognized faces in America. Her picture is taped inside lockers across the country, her closets are stuffed with designer clothes she has never worn, and tabloids track her every move. She co-stars on one of the hottest shows on television, and the pressure is relentless. So she makes a decision: two months undercover as a regular high school student, no cameras, no publicists, no velvet ropes. She enrolls and tries to disappear into the crowd. But ordinary high school turns out to have its own brutal social rules, its own hierarchies, and its own drama. Kaitlin quickly discovers that surviving the hallways is not so different from surviving Hollywood. Author Jen Calonita spent years as a Senior Editor at Teen People, watching celebrity culture up close, and that insider knowledge gives this world its texture and credibility. This is the first book in the Secrets of My Hollywood Life series, and it sets up Kaitlin's ongoing push and pull between the life she was handed and the one she might actually want.
Genres: fiction, coming-of-age, contemporary, young-adult, comedy
Vibes: humorous, light-hearted, relatable, satirical, witty
Tropes: fish-out-of-water, secret-identity, undercover
Setting: Hollywood, high school
Period: 21st-century
256 pages · Paperback · Poppy