โ Scribed by Jasper Sanchez
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Red, White, & Royal Blue meets The West Wing in Jasper Sanchezโs electric and insightful #ownvoices YA debut, chronicling a transmasculine studentโs foray into a no-holds-barred student body president election against the wishes of his politician father.
Optics can make or break an election. Everything Mark knows about politics, he learned from his father, the Congressman who still pretends he has a daughter and not a son.
Mark has promised to keep his past hidden and pretend to be the cis guy everyone assumes he is. But when he sees a manipulatively charming candidate for student body president inflame dangerous rhetoric, Mark risks his low profile to become a political challenger.
The problem? No one really knows Mark. He didnโt grow up in this town, and his few friends are all nerds. Still, thanks to Scandal and The West Wing, they know where to start: from campaign stops to voter polling to a fashion makeover.
Soon Mark feels emboldened to engage with votersโand even start a new romance. But with an investigative journalist digging into his past, a father trying to silence him, and the bully frontrunner standing in his way, Mark will have to decide which matters most: perception or truth, when both are just as dangerous.
โMind-bogglingly good. This is a novel that every teen needs.โย โKacen Callender, author ofย Felix Ever After
"Charming, stunning, and unapologetically queer." โMason Deaver, bestselling author ofย I Wish You All the Bestย andย The Ghosts We Keep
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