Rebecca and the Movies (American Girl Collection, 4)

3.5, but rounding up- thought it was okay. Here's the birthday book! It's Passover so Rebecca worries that her birthday will be forgotten but turns out, her family has a surprise for her... Uncle Max also takes Rebecca to work, and we learn how silent films were made.

Would perhaps have been nice to spend more time on what Passover means, but when Rebecca describes how great Moses parting the Red Sea would be as a movie, I can't help but think of Charleston Heston 41 years in the future from this story.

On her tenth birthday, Rebecca can hardly believe it when cousin Max invites her to join him for a day at his movie studio to watch a movie being made! Although her parents don't approve of actors or movies, Mama relents and says Rebecca may go. At the studio, Rebecca meets the glamorous Lily, a real movie star. When the camera begins to roll, Rebecca knows she must sit quietly and watch. Suddenly, the director shouts "Cut!" and Rebecca finds herself facing an opportunity she never imagined in her wildest dreams. Does she have the nerve for it? And what would
her parents say if they knew?