Claim to Fame by Margaret Peterson Haddix



 

4 Stars - Fast-paced mystery








Lindsay seemed to have it all.  She spent her tween years as a child star of the hit TV show Just Me and the Kids.  She was beautiful and famous.  Parents wanted their children to be like her, teen girls wanted to look like her, and all the boys wanted to be with her. 






When the pressure became too much, Lindsay started slipping.  Before long, she had a full-blown nervous breakdown.  Living in obscurity with her eccentric father, Lindsay just wants to forget about her former life and hide away from the world.  For years, she is able to do just that.  Her father homeschools her, and she rarely goes out in public.  Everything changes, though, when her father dies.






All these years, Lindsay has kept a secret from the world.  She can hear others' thoughts about her - reads their minds.  Feeling like a freak, Lindsay is determined to continue living her life isolated from the world.  She stays alone in her home, continues with her online classes, and pays the bills with the savings from Just Me and the Kids. 



Lindsay manages to get away with it for a while....until the tabloids publish a crazy story that she is being held hostage by her father.  Once she's spotted in her neighborhood, two teen boys decide to be heroes and kidnap her, thinking they are "rescuing her" from her horrible father.  Lindsay is afraid - not because she thinks they may hurt her.  Toby is pretty good-looking, and she knows his thoughts ... how much he likes her and how he only has good intentions to help her.  What about his friend Roz, though?  She's very suspicious that something is not "quite right" with Lindsay?  Will she sell information about her to the tabloids or go to the police?



Lindsay wants to hide but now she can't.  Even though her father is now gone, Lindsay finds out she's not alone.  There are others who are waiting and watching....listening to her thoughts - including Lindsay's own mother.


Will Lindsay learn to trust others?  How long can she keep her sixth sense a secret?


 

*Recommended Read Aloud

6 comments:

  1. I really loved this book. At some parts of the book it was hard to stay with it because of all the things it was throwing at you, but you could easily get back on track. Lindsay's character had many sides like at times she was so heartbroken about her father dying, but others were where she was so determined to find her mother. I did not like the ending that much because it just didn't give you a lot of emotion to be through with the book. I wish it said about some of her life with her mother but it was great that she was fully accepting her talented gift. I just did not want to stop reading it. I would really recommend this book to other people who just don't want to put a book down.
    ~Kylie H. Burger~

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  2. i loved this book it is so suspenseful and sortof dissapointing at the end but still a ver y good book i loved it and wished there was a sequal so i could read on!

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  3. I liked this book a lot, it was not my favorite but i liked it. It is about a former young actress named Lindsay. She soon gets an undiscovered power, she can hear everything peope say about her. She finds out where her mom is and her grandfether. She finally gets her mom to live in her house with her and they got her grandfather a TV and DVD set and the entire show, all episodes, of Just Me And The Kids. Lindsay finally understands what her father was doing all those years he spent in his room and she pursues what he did too. SHe gets into the college he worked at and can't wait for her life ahead of her. I recommmend this book to people who love suspense. Only a few more books to go andcan't wait for more reading!

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  4. this book was really good and i would recommend it to.......EVERYONE. i lovedthe way it ended ,she sees her mom ,her grandpa,meets lots of new friends.

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  5. This book was an amazing thrill to read. I love the way it starts off with a BAM and ends with one too. It's a pretty humorous book also. It makes my head hurt just knowing what she had to deal with all the time when she isn't in the comfort of her home. To also know she is living by herself breaks my heart. Anyways, this book is about a girl named Lindsay who used to be an actress as a child but she no longer is one because the show she was on got cancelled. I love her determination to find her mother as well. This was a fantastic book!

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  6. i LOVED CLAIM TO FAME!!! It realates to me in a way because someday in the nearby future i hope to become famouse, but i would never give that up for a normal life like lindsay did. But i guess i could understand i mean she was a kid, and a kid can only take soo much before he/she gets tired of the same routine! I loved the kidnapers in the beginning of the story and how they tried to rescue her, but then they took her back to her house before her dad knew little did she know her father was dead and she wanted to be left alone. I Really liked the heartbreak in the story but also the humeriose parts!!!!!! This book Was Very relatable to me.

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