Maintaining her charade for three months requires unbelievably good fortune, but the author does a good job of giving Jordan cover. The school-wide a cappella competition is slated for early December. She borrows a wig and a set of male clothes from the drama department, lowers her voice, calls herself a boy named Julian, and auditions as a tenor 1.Īfter she’s initiated into the group, she’s determined to pose as a boy long enough to help the Sharpshooters win a spot touring Europe with a celebrated pop star. When Jordan sees a call for an opening in a boys’ a cappella group called the Sharpshooters, she decides she has nothing to lose. The only opportunities left to her are for Greek monologues and experimental one-act plays. Riley Redgate’s young-adult novel Noteworthy uses the competitive world of a cappella singing to explore universal coming-of-age themes such as pursuing dreams, crafting identity, and yearning to belong.īudding singer Jordan Sun craves the spotlight, but she’s not above fading into the background when people speculate about why she broke up with her boyfriend, or why she doesn’t have the money to keep pace with the rest of her boarding-school cohort.Ī Chinese-American scholarship student studying theater at a prestigious arts school in Upstate New York, Jordan needs a starring role in a major production to fill out her résumé and to prove to her mother that flying back and forth from San Francisco is worth the expense to a family with a history of relying on food stamps.īut at the start of her junior year, Jordan is passed over once again for even a walk-on role in the high school musical.
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