Kind of a Big Deal Author:Shannon Hale There's nothing worse than peaking in high school. Nobody knows that better than Josie Pie. — She used to be kind of a big deal -- she dropped out of high school to be a theater star! But the bigger you are, the harder you fall. And Josie fell. Hard. Broadway dream? Dead. — Meanwhile, her life imploded. Best friend? Distant. Boyfriend? Busy. M... more »om? Not playing with a full deck. Desperate to escape, Josie gets into reading.
Literally. She reads a book and suddenly she's inside it! And with each story, she's a different character -- a postapocalyptic heroine, the lead in a YA rom-con, A seventeenth-century wench in a corset.
It's alarming . . . but also kind of amazing?
Book after book, Josie the failed star finds new ways to shine. But the longer she stays in a story, the harder it becomes to leave.
Will Josie find a story so good that she just stays forever?« less