Age: 9th grade-12th grade

This book opens right after Jamie's high school has passed a newly refurbished sexual education curriculum that includes giving out condoms on Fridays and discussing the normalcy of homosexuality. As the school's newspaper editior-in-chief, Jamie writes an editorial in support of the sex ed curriculum. What she doesn't realize is that this editorial will tie her into an upheaval of constitutional right for religious morality. When a conservative theocrat enters as the newly elected school board member, she drives a force of opposition that suspends the newspaper advisor, strangleholds the newspaper opinion and news pieces, supports animosity against homosexuals, and postpones the health classes. In retaliation, Jamie and the newspaper group form the Renegade, a subversive newspaper seeking to bring forth the real issues to the high school students. The whole time this is going on, Jamie is fearfully questioning her homosexuality and is attracted to a girl who she doesn't know is straight or not.

The syntax of the novel is somewhat confusing and I had to re-read over several sentences throughout. Although Jamie's sexuality is confronted with hostility by some classmates, her childhood best friend, and her brother, she is also embrassed by her mother and father, her new good friend, and several of her classmates. While the subject matter is great--lesbian protagonist, gay subcharacters, censorship, free speech, animosity from radical religious people--the writing itself lacks in character development and syntax.