The Funny Girl
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After her family moves to a new part of the country and she starts at a new school, Shelby Bloom struggles to make friends and find her place. She tries to share other kids' interests but doesn't fit in with the fashionistas, the burping boys or the rock star wannabes. Finally, Shelby discovers she has more in common with the horse-loving girls than she'd thought, and she finds two friends who love a good laugh almost as much as she does.
Shelby Bloom cringes when her mum posts an embarrassing video of her online. Shelby hopes no-one will see it, but the clip quickly goes viral at school. When it turns out mean girl Brooke sent the video to everyone, Shelby plots revenge and secretly records Brooke doing something equally humiliating. But Shelby can't bring herself to share the video. She gets a better idea, one that will have everyone confessing their greatest embarrassments, if it works.
With a big prize at stake, everyone wants to win the school talent show. Shelby Bloom is planning a stand-up comedy act, while mean girl Brooke is planning to model clothes. After Brooke finds Shelby's notes and spoils the fun by sharing the punch lines, Shelby hustles to create a new routine and to think of a few tricks of her own. They're both in for a surprise at the big show.
Shelby Bloom is the new kid at school, and she's in search of an identity. Taking stock of herself, she worries that she's no sports superstar, no wiz kid, no social butterfly and no beauty queen. But she is funny at least she thinks she is (and her sister says she's a riot). Shelby decides she'll be the funny girl, the one who wins friends by keeping them in stitches. Soon she finds that while she really does have a comic flair, she also has a few things to learn about what makes people laugh, when the timing is right and how things can go wrong for the jokester.
After their teacher announces a good citizenship contest, Shelby and her classmates try to outdo each other with good deeds. Grand plans go wrong and sometimes backfire, but then Shelby does something truly good without thinking of any award. When the prize isn't quite what anyone expects, she and her friends have a laugh and decide helping others feels better than getting an award.