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Prom

Laurie Halse Anderson

2005215 pagesabout 3–5 hours
2005
first published
  • 2005Viking · 215 pages · ENGISBN 9780670059744
  • 2005Thorndike Press · 288 pages · ENGISBN 9780786278138
  • 2006Penguin Publishing Group · ENGISBN 9780756968977
  • 2009Penguin USA, Inc. · ENGISBN 9781101156377
  • 2014Scholastic · ENGISBN 9781407138596
  • 2014Scholastic · ENGISBN 9781407146379
  • 2006Puffin · 215 pages · ENGISBN 9780142405703
  • 2006Tandem Library · 240 pages · ENGISBN 9781417700202

Ashley Hannigan is one of the few people in her urban Philadelphia high school who doesn't care about the prom. It's pretty much the only good thing that happens there, and everyone plans to make the most of it--especially Ash's best friend, Natalia, who's the head of the committee and has prom stars in her eyes. Then the faculty advisor is busted for taking the prom money and Ash finds herself roped into putting together a gala dance. But she has plenty of help--from her large and loving (if exasperating!) family, from Nat's eccentric grandmother, from the principal, from her fellow classmates. And in making the prom happen, Ash learns some surprising things about making her life happen, too.

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Written forMiddle grade

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ThemesFamily
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