Miss Meteor
Written by Tehlor Kay Mejia and Anna-Marie McLemore
Narrated by Kyla Garcia and Almarie Guerra
4/5
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About this audiobook
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.
Editor's Note
Determination…
YA authors Tehlor Kay Mejia (“We Set the Dark on Fire”) and Anna-Marie McLemore (“When the Moon Was Ours”) team up for this story about two Latinx girls determined to see a person with brown skin win their town’s beauty pageant for the first time. For anyone who loved “Dumplin’.”
Tehlor Kay Mejia
Tehlor Kat Mejia is a bestselling and award winning author of young adult and middle grade fiction. Their debut young adult novel, We Set the Dark on Fire, received six starred reviews, as well as the Oregon Spirit Book Award for debut fiction, and the Neukom Institute Literary Arts Award runner up honor for debut speculative fiction. It has been featured on Seventeen, Cosmopolitan, and O by Oprah Magazine’s best books lists, and was a 2019 book of the year selection by Kirkus and School Library Journal. Its sequel, We Unleash the Merciless Storm, followed to continuing acclaim, while Miss Meteor (co-written with National Book Award Nominee Anna-Marie McLemore) was named to the American Library Association’s 2021 Rainbow List, honoring outstanding contributions in LGBTQIA teen fiction. Tehlor’s debut middle grade novel, Paola Santiago and the River of Tears, was published by the Rick Riordan Presents imprint at Disney/Hyperion. It received four starred reviews, and was named Amazon’s best book of 2020 in the 9-12 age range. It is currently in development at Disney as a television series to be produced by Eva Longoria. Tehlor lives with their daughter, partner, and two small dogs in Oregon, where they grow heirloom corn and continue their quest to perfect the vegan tamale.
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Reviews for Miss Meteor
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This is not about a WLW relationship, but it's still a QUEER books with queer characters and I enjoyed it. Also Cole is the best.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5You will be vibrating with both giggles and rage throughout this book! I wanted to scream for these characters and also be their best friend. I appreciated the realistic ending, but I also hated it (my hatred is directed at the state of racial and LGBTQ+ treatment in our world, not at the actual ending). I wanted to see them take down the homophobic and racist people all over town, but what strongly came across in this story was that these teens living their lives to the fullest is already so disruptive. And that was beautiful.