A powerful drama about self-acceptance

Kit Webster is hiding a secret. Carma, his best friend, has
already figured it out, and pushes him to audition for the high
school play, Talk. When he's cast as the male lead, he expects to
escape his own life for a while and become a different person.
What he gets instead is the role of a lifetime: Kit Webster. In
the play, Kit's thrown together with Lindsay Walsh, the female
lead and the school's teen queen. Lindsay, tired of the shallow
and selfish boys from her usual circle of friends, sees something
real in Kit - and wants it. But Kit's attention is focused on
Pablo, another boy in school. The play is controversial; the
parents put pressure on the school to shut it down. And when
Kit and Lindsay rally to save Talk, they find themselves deep
into a battle for the truth: onstage, and inside themselves.

As in her other books, Ms. Koja's "long stream-of-consciousness
sentences with creative (but recognizable) spelling and clever
use of italics will enchant readers" (Booklist).