Title: Talent (Talent #1)
Description: It's all about talent in LA: who has it, who doesn't, who wants it, and who can find it first!

When thirteen-year-old Mac Armstrong witnesses newcomer Emily Mungler's stellar lying-to-gain-entry performance during a movie premiere party at the Roosevelt in Hollywood, it dawns on her that her own talent is to discover it in others! So Mac and her BFFs set out to prove it by turning fresh-from- Cedartown-Iowa Emily into a box office bombshell. They'll make deals, throw parties, crush on boys, all on the way to discovering that no matter how famous or important you are, friendship always comes first. Well, almost always
Subjects: Ability in fiction, Friendship in fiction, Ability, Middle schools, Cliques (Sociology), Juvenile fiction, Talent scouts in fiction, Schools in fiction, Fiction, Middle schools in fiction, Best friends in fiction, Schools, Best friends, Friendship, Talent scouts, School stories, Scouts and scouting, fiction, Schools, fiction, Friendship, fiction, Los angeles (calif.), fiction, Children's fiction
Places: Bel Air (Los Angeles, Calif.)