Sunday, July 22, 2007

Liza's Lucky Break

Title: Liza's Lucky Break
Author:Suzanne Weyen
Genre: General

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Liza loves singing, dancing and acting. In school plays she always gets the primary role or the secobdary roles. At, due to her luck, at the hotel where Liza and her friends work, a movie shooting is taking place. Liza thought this was her chance, and with the help of her best friends Chris and Sam, Liza makes an audition tape. WIthout her mean, rude ordering boss noticing them, Liza drops of the tape in the room's VCR where the Director Miles is staying. Also due to her luck, the director at that night has to change rooms because of leaking water, and he didn't get the chance to see the video, therfore the video was left there. Fortunately, rescently the Plucky CHicken's employees and it owner are visiting the place and are staying at the hotel. After, the room got fixes, the owner of the Plucky Chicken goes and lives in the room where the director stayed. The Plucky Chickken's owner sees the video and loves Liza's acting. He hires her for doing the commercial for his chickens. Although Liza didn't get a chance to be in the movie, she sees the commercial as a start to stardom. At the time when Liza has to perform in front of all newsppaers, the invited director, the owner and other sales poeple, Liza gets stage fright. She messes up the whole thing. However, after performing her worst Liza thinks of a brillant idea and performs again, where adudience applaude. Seeing Liza's acating made the director to give a Liza a part in his movie. Liza was soo happy.
This was an ok read. It wasn't boring like the last book I read. This book reminds oof me how i always get stage freight. I always practice doing my presentations at home perfectly and with confidence, but when I go and present in front of my class, I always end up doing a worser job at it compared to what i practiced.

Mina
Branch: Miliken Mills

1 comment:

Markham Public Libraries Teen Staff said...

Hi, MIna:

One of the top fears of people is having to give a speech or talk in front of people.

some people are more afraid of that then dying.

Anyway, you are not alone. I always find that if I pretend, i am not not scared, I can give a good show.

Catherine

P.S. A plucky chicken in more ways than one because she was able to persevere and have her dream of a t.v. commercial. A movie is a big dream but at least, she got something out of the hard work.