![]() And the adults at camp seem more concerned with staging a good show than being fair to all the kids. Auditions sort winners from losers, and Sadye's repeatedly pulled up short, finding that kids she's knowledgably pegged as losers emerge with secret skills come audition time. Drama geeks, band jocks, choir nerds will all recognize the heady-but-toxic camp atmosphere, where competition is exhilarating but it's also nonstop and of course, cruel. Lockhart nails the drama camp/band camp milieu. And that's where the story gets interesting. ![]() Surely that should be enough to edge you into the spotlight where you belong. If you're Sadye, the great-souled, loud, determined theatre-kid protagonist, you reach inside yourself down to your toes and you keep fighting and working. What if your BFF, your only theatre-geek confidante for all these years at school, your best secret dance partner, both outshines you at camp AND finds friends he BELONGS with? Can you be happy for him? Except what if it doesn't, or at least not the way you planned? ![]() Well, it should turn out perfectly of course. So what happens when you finally escape your small-minded high school for the glories of drama camp, you large-souled drama person, you? ![]()
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