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Who Wants to be a Star?Julia Allen and Margaret Iggulden

Who Wants to be a Star?

Tina Daniels is thirteen years old and a star. She sings beautifully, and everyone loves her. Her mother has big ideas about Hollywood, but Tina is not happy. One day she goes away on a train. Who does she meet? What does she see? Read about Tina’s new life.

Penguin Readers are simplif ied texts which provide a step-by-step approach to the joys of reading for pleasure.

Original British English

Number of words (excluding activities): 911

Cover photograph © Alamy Images / viennaphoto / allOverPhotography

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Tina Daniels is thirteen years old and she is a star. She

can sing and dance. Everyone knows her. Everyone

loves her. They call her ‘Curls’ because she has beautiful

curly hair. They all want her photo. She can have

anything she wants.

But is she happy?

Does she want to be a star?

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“Tina, why are you eating chocolates?” her mother

asks. “I like them. They’re nice!” Tina says. “You’re

getting fat, and a fat girl doesn’t get lots of money in

Hollywood,” Mrs Daniels says. “You want the money –

I don’t!” Tina says.

Tina is angry with her mother and Mrs Daniels is angry

with Tina. Tina leaves the room and cries.

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Tina is very sad. She does not want to be a star. She

wants a quiet life. One day she has an idea. Her

schoolfriend, Mary, has a grandmother called Mrs

White. Old Mrs White lives in the country, in

Stonechurch. Tina has a photo of Mary in front of Mrs

White’s house. It looks very pretty – not like the city!

Tina decides to go there.

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Tina is at the city station. She is wearing jeans and an

old jumper. People do not know who she is.

“Where do you want to go, young girl?” the man at the

ticket office asks her. “Stonechurch, please. When’s the

next train?” Tina asks. “The train leaves at two o’clock

from platform three,” the man says. Tina buys her

ticket.

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Tina arrives at Stonechurch. She sees an old house near

the river. It is the house in the photo! There are flowers

and trees in the garden.

“Mrs White must live here,” Tina thinks. She goes to

the front door and rings the bell. An old lady with white

hair and a kind face opens the door. A black cat comes

out too.

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