Publisher Description
A gorgeous and magical collaboration between two critically acclaimed, powerhouse YA authors offers a richly imagined underdog story perfect for fans of Dumplin’ and Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe.
There hasn’t been a winner of the Miss Meteor beauty pageant who looks like Lita Perez or Chicky Quintanilla in all its history.
But that’s not the only reason Lita wants to enter the contest, or her ex-best friend Chicky wants to help her. The road to becoming Miss Meteor isn’t about being perfect; it’s about sharing who you are with the world—and loving the parts of yourself no one else understands.
So to pull off the unlikeliest underdog story in pageant history, Lita and Chicky are going to have to forget the past and imagine a future where girls like them are more than enough—they are everything.
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About the Authors
Tehlor Kay Mejia is the author of the critically acclaimed young adult fantasy novels We Set the Dark on Fire and its sequel We Unleash the Merciless Storm, among other books. We Set the Dark on Fire received six starred reviews and was chosen as an Indie’s Next Pick, a Junior Library Guild selection, a Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year, and School Library Journal Best Book of 2019. It was also featured in Seventeen, Cosmopolitan, and O, The Oprah Magazine.
Anna-Marie McLemore (they/them) is the author of several accalimed books, including The Weight of Feathers, a 2016 William C. Morris YA Debut Award Finalist; When the Moon Was Ours, A Stonewall Honor Book and longlisted for the National Book Award; Wild Beauty, named a best book of the year by Kirkus Reviews, School Library Journal, and Booklist; Blanca & Roja, a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice; Dark and Deepest Red, an Indie Next List title; and The Mirror Season, which was longlisted for the National Book Award in Young People's Literature.
About the Narrators
Kyla Garcia is an AudioFile Earphones Award–winning narrator. Born and raised in Hoboken, New Jersey, she discovered acting at the age of eight when she played Lady Macbeth in a children’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s tragedy. She made her off-Broadway debut at fifteen when she played Dorothy in Oz: A Twisted Musical. Eleven years after she discovered her passion for acting, she would go on to play Lady Macbeth once again in London at the Globe Theatre, where she studied Shakespeare during her third year at Mason Gross School of the Arts. She received her BFA in acting from Rutgers University.
Almarie Guerra is an actor known for her work on Sorry You’re Sad, Dude Bro Party Massacre III, and Night of the Living Deb. She is part of an LA/NY based improv group, the Story Pirates.