Young Adult Books
Coming out on 11/18…the newest YA novel by Lyla Lee!
Pride & Prejudice meets Love Island in the newest YA book by Lyla Lee.
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that when there is a hot person, there is also someone with a crush on them.
Mia Yoon has a plan for everything. Get a full-ride to her dream film school in Los Angeles, behind her mom’s back, and escape her middle-of-nowhere hometown? Check. Produce her own dating show starring other people and their crushes? Check. But everything goes off the rails when she has to enlist the help of her own secret crush, Noah Jang, a boy she’d rather hate.
Despite being a campus celebrity voted “most eligible student bachelor,” Noah can’t remember the last time he was in a relationship. And he’s perfectly content with that, thank you very much, especially since just the word feelings makes him uncomfortable. But he can’t stop staring at Mia, who keeps glaring at him in class. And when she asks him to be on her dating show—as one of the contestants—he can’t say no.
As Noah goes on more and more romantic dates in The Cuffing Game, and Mia watches from behind the camera, something feels off. With the show-runner and contestant slowly falling for one another, can the show still go on?
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The world of K-pop has never met a star like this.
Diverse book recommended by The Today Show
A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year
Bank Street Best Book of the Year
YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults
ALA’s Rainbow Book List Top 10 for Teen Readers
Translated in Korean, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Slovak, Turkish, and Russian
Debut author Lyla Lee delivers a deliciously fun, thoughtful rom-com celebrating confidence, bisexuality, and body positivity―perfect for fans of Jenny Han and Julie Murphy.
Skye Shin has heard it all. Fat girls shouldn’t dance. Shouldn’t 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, even her own mother, have set for girls like her.
When Skye nails her audition in an internationally televised competition looking for the next big K-Pop star, she’s immediately swept into a whirlwind of countless practices and shocking performances. 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.
Features:
two bi main characters (one girl and one boy) and two sapphic (wlw) side characters–yes, every main character is queer!
Perfect for fans of:
K-pop (this book was inspired by BTS and is about a reality TV kpop competition)
reality TV
cute, summer romances
body positivity, self-love, and girl power
Listen to the official I’ll Be the One playlist!
The first rule of watching K-dramas: Never fall in love with the second lead.
As an avid watcher of K-dramas, Hana knows all the tropes to avoid when she finally lands a starring role in a buzzy new drama. And she can totally handle her fake co-star boyfriend, heartthrob Bryan Yoon, who might be falling in love with her. After all, she promised the TV producers a contract romance, and that’s all they’re going to get from her.
But when showrunners bring on a new lead actress to challenge Hana’s role as main love interest—and worse, it’s someone Hana knows all too well—can Hana fight for her position on the show, while falling for her on-screen rival in real life?
In this simmering, joyous novel, I’ll Be the One author Lyla Lee delivers a tender romance set between two brave teens who decide that when the script isn’t working, it’s time to rewrite it themselves.
Features:
a “chaotic good trio” of queer main characters (one bi, one lesbian, and one pan)
Perfect for fans of:
swoony K-drama romances
stories that DON’T have the “bury your gays”trope (looking at you, “Killing Eve”!)
cute rivals-to-lovers, sapphic books like I Kissed Shara Wheeler
Korean pop culture; the entire book is set in Seoul, South Korea
Now available in Spanish!
Listen to the official Flip the Script playlist!