Ruby Parker Hits the Small Time

Ruby Parker Hits the Small Time

by RowanColeman (Author)

Synopsis

Child soap-star, Ruby Parker, discovers being famous when you're a teenager isn't all it's cracked up to be. Spotty and gawky, all her fan mail is about viewers' problems - not how much they adore and fancy her! Ruby Parker has been acting in the glamorous soap, Kensington Heights, for most of her life. She is stunned when she overhears the script writers discussing whether to kill her character off, or to replace Ruby with a more beautiful actress! She has always felt like the ugly duckling compared to her stunning co-stars, but now more than ever she sees that everyone is disappointed how the cute, chubby dimpled four year old has morphed into a lumpy pimpled fourteen year old. Ruby is feeling more self-conscious than ever, and to top it all off, she discovers she's got to have her first screen kiss - with the oh-so-gorgeous Justin de Souza, the soap's hunk. What with dealing with fame on a national level, having her first ever kiss in front of cameras and dealing with everyone's jealousy at stage school, Ruby doesn't think things can get any harder. Then her parents give her the most unexpected (and worst) news yet!

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 240
Publisher: HarperCollinsChildren’sBooks
Published: 03 May 2005

ISBN 10: 0007190387
ISBN 13: 9780007190386
Children’s book age: 12+ Years

Author Bio
Rowan graduated from Hull University in 1993 then worked in bookselling for three years as the manager of an independent bookshop in London. In 1997 she moved to Random House to work as a Sales Administrator, where she eventually became Editorial Manager at Ebury Press. Her first novel, GROWING UP TWICE, was published in September 2001 and was a WHS Fresh Talent winner. Her second novel, AFTER EVER AFTER, was published August 2003.