'Like her visual arts students at Kensington, Redgate crafts her characters with delicate lines and strong shadows within a phase of life that is anything but gentle. 'Redgate vividly captures the world of a cappella, and she uses Jordan’s soul-searching-as well as her family’s financial struggles.to bring freshness and substantial depth to a gender-bending/mistaken identity plot that has a long history in literature and theater.' Her first two novels, Noteworthy and Seven Ways We Lie, earned critical acclaim. Riley Redgate is a graduate of Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio.

This is not a story of having to hide who you are, but rather a story of finding who you are.' Redgate deftly harmonizes a lighthearted plot with an exploration of privilege, identity, and personal agency. 'It is refreshing to read a story about someone dressing as the opposite sex and not have the main tension be about someone finding out. This fun novel pushes against gender norms and will resonate with many teens.'

'Setting and plot delightfully incorporate the arts, with themes of romance and self-awareness woven in. delightfully wrapped up in a fun, compelling package of high-school rivalries, confusing romances, and a classic Shakespearean case of mistaken identity.' 'A smart critique of gender roles-male and female-in today’s society. With her secret growing heavier every day, Jordan pushes beyond gender norms to confront what it means to be a girl (and a guy) in a male-dominated society, and-most importantly-what it means to be herself.'Redgate deftly harmonizes a lighthearted plot with an exploration of privilege, identity, and personal agency. A heart song for all readers who have ever felt like strangers in their own skins.' Jordan finds herself enmeshed in a precarious juggling act: making friends, alienating friends, crushing on a guy, crushing on a girl, and navigating decades-old rivalries. Desperate to prove herself, Jordan auditions in her most convincing drag, and it turns out that Jordan Sun, Tenor 1, is exactly what the Sharps are looking for.

A spot has opened up in the Sharpshooters, Kensington’s elite a cappella octet. But when her low Alto 2 voice gets her shut out for the third straight year-threatening her future at Kensington-Blaine and jeopardizing her college applications-she’s forced to consider nontraditional options. Jordan Sun is embarking on her junior year at the Kensington-Blaine Boarding School for the Performing Arts, hopeful that this will be her time: the year she finally gets cast in the school musical.

Noteworthy by riley redgate