num_pages: 384
description: A cappella just got a makeover.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. But when her low Alto 2 voice gets her shut out for the third straight yearthreatening her future at Kensington-Blaine and jeopardizing her college applicationsshes forced to consider nontraditional options.In Jordans case really nontraditional. A spot has opened up in the Sharpshooters Kensingtons elite a cappella octet. Worshipedreveredall male. 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.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. 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 andmost importantlywhat it means to be herself.
language: English
title: Noteworthy
publisher: Harry N. Abrams