<p><b>K-pop gets the <i>Gossip Girl </i>treatment when Alice Choy is catapulted into the life of a manufactured popstar at the elite Top10 Entertainment''s Star Academy.</b><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>A debut novel about standing out and fitting in, dreaming big an