num_pages: 352
description: Leah Burkegirl-band drummer master of deadpan and Simon Spiers best friend from the award-winning Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agendatakes center stage in this novel of first love and senior-year angst.When it comes to drumming Leah Burke is usually on beatbut real life isnt always so rhythmic. An anomaly in her friend group shes the only child of a young single mom and her life is decidedly less privileged. She loves to draw but is too self-conscious to show it. And even though her mom knows shes bisexual she hasnt mustered the courage to tell her friendsnot even her openly gay BFF Simon.So Leah really doesnt know what to do when her rock-solid friend group starts to fracture in unexpected ways. With prom and college on the horizon tensions are running high. Its hard for Leah to strike the right note while the people she loves are fightingespecially when she realizes she might love one of them more than she ever intended.
language: English
title: Leah on the Offbeat
publisher: HarperCollins/Balzer + Bray