In the wake of her parents' divorce, Sydney is uprooted, moving into a dingy apartment with her mom in a new school district. Her new school is like another planet, with its over-privileged student body, teachers who go by their first names, and the social ladder topped by the nationally ranked speech team. After falling in with a group of fellow misfits, Sydney helps craft a plan to knock the cool kids down a peg: she will infiltrate the speech team and ensure they don't win nationals this year. But the line between faking it with her new crew and truly feeling like one of them gets blurred after Sydney falls for the rock star of the team. And the fraught history between her speech coach and her father divides her loyalties. As nationals loom closer, Sydney has to decide once and for all whose side she's on.


