Forward March

Harper McKinley wants to get through senior-year marching band without becoming a problem for her father’s presidential campaign. Someone else has other ideas, creating a dating profile with Harper’s face and presenting her as interested in girls. The situation could upset her school-dean mother, her politician father and Harper herself, who has not worked out what she wants. Meeting Margot, the drumline leader who responded to the profile, complicates the question. A relationship begun under false pretenses forces Harper to consider what honesty might look like. Skye Quinlan’s YA story follows a first crush under the scrutiny of family expectations, school rules and public ambition.