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I can already think of at least a dozen of my students who will want to read this the moment it comes out. Finding Famous is the story of a girl (Josie) who finds out that she is the love child of America's favorite dad, Ali Mashad who was the patriarch of the country's most famous reality-TV family: The Mashads.

Josie had been living a relatively calm life with her stepdad, Matt, who were both just trying to hang on after a car accident claimed the life of her mother. The truth doesn't come out until Josie's 18th birthday when she receives a posthumous letter from her birth dad. All of a sudden, Josie finds out that she has three half-sisters as well as a potential fortune if she agrees to be on the family's reality TV show for one season.

During the filming of the series, Josie learns the meaning of family and navigates the life she knew versus the life she has now.

There are some clear parallels between the Mashads and Kardashians, which pulled me out of the story a tad. That being said, those same parallels will make the book even more appealing to some readers.

I wouldn't hesitate to purchase for a high school collection.

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