Starring Me

Kara McKormich is told shes auditioning to star in a new teen variety show. Its what she isnt told that could change her life.The feisty New Yorker moves to sunny Orlando to participate in a month-long audition, where shell live with nine other contestants and an eccentic housemother. Kara knows that the show already has a big-time celebrity lined up for the co-host, but she doesnt know who it is.Chad Beacon quickly rose to fame after winning Americas Next Star, but he doesnt want his entire career to be about singing. There is so much more he wants to dolike act. The new variety show sounds like the perfect next step for him, but his parents want him to have a co-star who shares his faith since theyll be spending so much time together.Acting is high on Karas priority list. But a relationship with God? Not so much. But God is after Karas heart and Hes put people in her life who are showing her theres far more to Christianity than rules and judgment.And just when it seems that Karas going to have to give up her acting dream, God reveals that she may have a starring role after allin a story so big only He could write it.Ripe with the glitz and glamour of celebrity, the drive of ambition, and the angst of peer pressure, Starring Me is the perfect book for teenage girls. Nicole ODell, author of The Diamond Estates series