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YAModern Role Models series.
These biographies chronicle the subjects' rise to fame, major setbacks and accomplishments, and efforts toward helping others; a few of the celebrities featured are odd choices as "role models," though all have teen appeal. The busy design includes photographs, bolded quotations, and many different-color fonts. There are eight other fall 2008 books in this series. Reading list, timeline, websites. Glos., ind. Review covers these Modern Role Models titles: Raven-Symoné, Tobey Maguire, Soulja Boy Tell 'Em, Tyra Banks, and Criss Angel.