Binding: Paperback
Description: Diverse book recommended by The Today Show * A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year * Bank Street Best Book of the Year * YALS a Best Fiction for Young Adults * AL a's Rainbow Book List Top 10 for Teen Readers The world of K - Pop has never met a star like this. Debut author Lyla Lee delivers a deliciously fun thoughtful rom - com celebrating confidence and body positivity perfect for fans of Jenny Han and Julie Murphy. Skye Shin has heard it all. Fat girls shouldn t dance. Wear bright colors. Shouldn t call attention to themselves. But Skye dreams of joining the glittering world of K - Pop and to do that she's about to break all the rules that society the media and even her own mother have set for girls like her. She ll challenge thousands of other performers in an internationally televised competition looking for the next K - pop star and she ll do it better than anyone else. When Skye nails her audition she's immediately swept into a whirlwind of countless practices shocking performances and the drama that comes with reality TV. What she doesn t count on are the highly fat - phobic beauty standards of the Korean pop entertainment industry her sudden media fame and scrutiny or the sparks that soon fly with her fellow competitor Henry Cho. But Skye has her sights on becoming the world's first plus - sized K - pop star and that means winning the competition without losing herself.
Title: I'll Be The One
Author(s): Lee Lyla
Publisher: Harpercollins
Barcode: 9780062936912
Pages: 336 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 1/4/2022