The pressure's really piling up on Greg Heffley. His mom thinks video games are turning his brain to mush, so she wants her son to put down the controller and explore his creative side. As if that's not scary enough, Halloween's just around the corner and the frights are coming at Greg from every angle. When Greg discovers a bag of gummy worms, it sparks an idea. Can he get his mom off his back by making a movie . . . and will he become rich and famous...

After her twelfth birthday, Rory checks off a list of things she is finally allowed to do, but unexpected consequences interfere with her involvement in the movie being shot at her school, while a weird prediction starts to make sense.

The reader is invited to find Waldo in the detailed illustrations of several crowded Hollywood movie sets.

Twelve-year-old Derek Fallon has the opportunity of a lifetime--to perform stunts in a movie featuring a popular twelve-year-old star--but complications arise involving his best friend, a capuchin monkey, and Derek's chronic inability to concentrate on schoolwork.

When silent movie director Larry Trimble decides to put Strongheart, a police dog, into his movies as the lead actor, he must first train him to play with toys and walk like a regular dog, but Strongheart becomes a sensation until his military training leads to trouble, and possibly the end of his career. Includes author's note on the real Strongheart.

Piggywood! Gracie LaRoo had long been starstruck with the town where glamorous movie stars work on thrilling films. But now it's her turn as a famous director asks Gracie to be a part of her next film. Gracie is thrilled! That is, until she gets there. Her part is not at all what she thought it would be and she can't seem to find her voice to speak up. Plus, her idol, Tilda Swinetune, is unhappy with the way the movie is going, too. But Gracie figures...

Rebecca Rubin worries that her tenth birthday will be ruined because it falls during Passover, but her mother's cousin Max, an actor, takes her with him to a movie studio, where she makes friends with an actress and a set carpenter.

Mr. Puffball, a ten-month-old kitten who wants to be a movie star, leaves home and makes his way to Hollywood, where he lands a job at Purramount Studios working with his hero, El Gato, who turns out to be very different from what Mr. Puffball expected.

Greg Heffley está bajo presión. Su madre cree que los videojuegos disminuten su capacidad intelectual y quiere que se olvide de la consola para explorar su "lado creativo". Y entonces descubre la vieja cámara de video de sus padres. Gracias a ella, Greg le demostrará al mundo todo su talento tramando un plan para filmar una peli de terror. . . y, de paso, hacerse rico y famoso. Pero ¿ir A TODA MARCHA con una peli es un buen plan? ¿O es la...

A German shepherd is transformed from Etzel, a police dog in Berlin, to Strongheart, a silent movie star that will need his best acting skills to prove himself innocent of attacking a girl.