Idol Gossip: A K-Pop dream come true by Alexandra Leigh Young

Idol Gossip: A K-Pop dream come true by Alexandra Leigh Young

K-pop gets the Gossip Girl treatment when Alice Choy is catapulted into the life of a manufactured popstar at the elite Top10 Entertainment's Star Academy. When seventeen-year-old Alice Choy moved from San Francisco to Seoul, she left behind her friends – and the regular singing lessons she used to love. Now the only singing she does is karaoke with her little sister in Myeongdong. That is, until she's spotted by a scout for Top10 Entertainment and invited to attend their Star Academy. But sculpting herself into one-fifth of soon-to-be-launched K-pop group A-List is hard work. It's rising at dawn for lung-crushing cardio, dancing drills and calorie controlled meals. It's egos and rivalry and secrets lived outside of the public eye, because if A-list gets on the wrong side of a certain influential blogger and the anti-fans, then Alice's dreams of being an idol might never materialize. A debut novel about standing out and fitting in, dreaming big and staying true.

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Alexandra Leigh Young currently produces the top-ranked "Daily" podcast from the New York Times. She produced tours for pop bands for three years before moving to South Korea as a freelance journalist. An assignment on K-pop for NPR’s Radiolab became the basis for Idol Gossip, her first novel for young adults.

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ISBN 13	9781529502770
ISBN 10	1529502772
Title	Idol Gossip: A K-Pop dream come true
Author	Alexandra Leigh Young
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Walker Books Ltd
Year published	2022-04-07
Number of pages	352
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