RUBY PARKER: SOAP STAR

By Rowan Coleman

Synopsis

Child soap-star Ruby Parker discovers fame isn’t all it’s cracked up to be! Although everything looks perfect from the outside, Ruby knows the truth as she deals with the possibility of being fired, the pending divorce of her parents, and the daily struggle to maintain a normal life in the bright spotlight of fame.

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Narrator	Lynsey Murrell
Length	4hrs 30mins
Catalogue No.	617491
Publisher	HarperCollins; 2011

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