Brittany Murphy (Robbie Readers) (Library Binding)

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Key Phrases: New Jersey, Los Angeles

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Brittany Murphy has always been a performer. As a two-year-old tot, she put on little shows for her parents. When she was a student at Herbert Hoover Middle School in Edison, New Jersey, she sang in Les Miserables. By the time she was thirteen, she had moved to Los Angeles and was filming commercials and starring in sitcoms. Brittany got her first break in the movies at age eighteen playing Tai in Clueless, and she has never looked back. With over 60 movie and television credits to her name, Brittany believes that the love and support she receives from her mother not only helped her get a start in show business, it has also shaped her into one of the hardest working actors in Hollywood today.

About the Author

Marylou Morano Kjelle is a freelance writer and photojournalist who lives and works in central New Jersey. She is a regular contributor to several local newspaper and online publications. She has written over 20 nonfiction books for young readers, including Hilary Duff and Tony Hawk for Mitchell Lane Publishers. Marylou has a master s of science degree from Rutgers University. She teaches English and writing at Rutgers and several other colleges in New Jersey.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 9-12
  
• Library Binding: 32 pages
• Publisher: Mitchell Lane Publishers (October 18, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1584155205
• ISBN-13: 978-1584155201
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.7 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #4,396,923 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Murphy's Law, August 12, 2008

By	Kevin Killian (San Francisco, CA United States) - See all my reviews (TOP 100 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

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After reviewing NEVERWAS, a 2005 Brittany Murphy vehicle, I got a little note from Amazon suggesting that if I liked watching Brittany Murphy as a hard-hitting journalist nursing an ugly little secret (which I didn't), I might enjoy this book so I said, well maybe. When the book came I was surprised to find out it was for children in grades 1 to 4, with a second grade reading level.

I don't know about you when but when I was in grade 1 we never had books about people like Brittany Murphy, but apparently this is just one in a series of biographies for kids, about people kids like, including Alex Rodriguez, Dr. Seuss, Jamie Lynn Spears, Tony Hawk, Dakota Fanning and Jesse McCartney. They call these books "Robbie Readers," I can't figure out why. Maybe a little boy Robbie, perhaps the son of the publisher, picks out the topics and then they farm them out to adults to actually do the writing? I'm going to try to read more of these books, not because this one was so great, I just like the idea of being able to read a whole book in under five minutes. Lavishly illustrated with cute pictures of Brittany, the bio gives us a sanitized version of her strange and difficult road to the top, which included leaving her mother behind in New Jersey when she was 13 to seek fame in LA. Thoughtfully the book defines its terms well. "Los Angeles is a city in California where there are many acting jobs." Yes, and Brittany Murphy took most of them or so it seems from the lengthy filmography included at the back of the book.

Brittany was reunited with her mother (Sharon, who deserves a book of her own) at a later date, and helped see Sharon through a bout of cancer. She's a helper at heart. Her affair with uber-toothsome Ashton Kutcher is mentioned, but not her reputation for being the girlfriend from hell. If all Robbie Readers are as interesting I'm going to ask for that operation where I could be a kid again, playing on the playground and then reading my hardcover life of Mia Hamm for inspiration. Plus I have to find out how the author of "Jamie Lynn Spears" handles Miss Spears' recent pregnancy at age 16. Pro or con?