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false <![CDATA[Prom]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172374983m/170175.jpg 170175 8 Ages 12 and up. Who would have thought the author of the gritty classic Speak had a gift for comedy? Here she demonstrates her comedic talent in the warm and witty story of Ashley, who is definitely not a prom-type person, and her best friend Nat, who lives for the prom. When the math teacher disappears with the funds just eleven days before the dance, determined and organized Nat goes into high gear to find alternative ways to make the prom happen and drags an unwilling Ashley into the flurry of urgent details. Ashley has enough problems in her life already, starting with the complexities of her crowded but loving working class family -- her extremely pregnant mother and her three exuberant and prom-crazy aunts, and her cab-driving father and three younger brothers, who think nothing of happily trashing the kitchen in a game of hot dog baseball. Then there's Mr. Gilroy, the evil vice principal of discipline, who has Ashley on endless detention, her awful job at EZ-CHEEZ-E, where she has trouble seeing the customers through the eyeholes of her rat costume, and her good-looking but lowlife boyfriend TJ, who wants her to join him in a future as depressing as the dank one-room apartment he has so proudly rented for them. Not to speak of Nat's loony grandmother, who wears her red bathing cap even when she's not doing the backstroke in a wading pool, babbles at Ashley in Russian, and spits on the floor to show her disapproval. But in the end it's grandma with her skill at baking (pastries to bribe the custodians) and sewing (a magical prom dress) who saves both the prom and Ashley's belief in herself and her future in this delightful and heartfelt novel. --Patty Campbell 1435368 book 2005 Prom total:1313|5:188|4:335|3:510|2:217|1:63| 1313 4307 1909 236 1 2 false false Sun Jan 18 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 18 19:47:11 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 18 20:04:43 -0800 2009
Anderson starts referring to the number of kids that are crack-whores, in jail, etc. but none of...more...]]> 3 1 false false Thu Jan 15 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 06 11:58:19 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 15 09:05:16 -0800 2009
I thought this book would be kind of cheesy, girly story about prom that would have existed in my day, a...more...]]> 5 1 false false Sat Sep 23 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Mon Mar 31 12:12:18 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 09 06:32:24 -0700 2008 was the head of like every committee in school and she was just
the girl that rarely like school.

...more...]]> 4 1 false false Thu Nov 20 17:14:57 -0800 2008 Thu Nov 20 17:19:55 -0800 2008 its a good book, It had me sucked in on some parts, and bored on others, but in all it had a lot...more...]]> 0 0 false false Fri Oct 16 06:46:59 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 16 06:47:07 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Wed Sep 30 12:32:46 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 30 12:32:46 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Sep 08 15:29:44 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 08 15:29:53 -0700 2009 Prom, by Lauri Halse Anderson it talked about a group of girls on a prom committee trying to get ready and put together a real prom for the seniors in the high school. The main character, Ashley didn't care about prom, and had her own problems to deal with instead like fixing her apart...more...]]> 2 0 false true Mon Sep 07 09:18:14 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 07 09:18:14 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Jun 20 14:01:30 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 20 14:01:39 -0700 2009
T...more...]]> 2 1 false false Wed Apr 22 03:48:12 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 22 03:48:50 -0700 2009 Speak, the college-obsessed Type A personality in Catalyst – and, in Prom, she turns her attention to the ‘normal’ kid. Ashley isn’t going to college; her ambit...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Apr 07 19:21:29 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 08 15:54:10 -0700 2009
Author: Laurie Halse Anderson

Publisher: Viking. 2005, 215 pages, $16.99

ISBN#: 0--670-05974-9

Prom was a little bit more light hearted than Anderson's other books. It portrayed some of the real issues teenagers face when prom rolls around...more...]]> 1 0 false false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Apr 05 09:55:19 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 05 10:06:16 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Jun 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 24 07:22:13 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 26 06:01:40 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Oct 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 17 00:19:19 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 17 00:19:19 -0700 2009 Underprivileged high-school senior Ashley Hannigan tries hard not to drop out of school during the last months. She has more detentions lined-up than days left to sit them off, works her butt off at a pizza parlor in a Romping Rat costume...more...]]> 0 0 false false Thu Jun 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 14 18:10:34 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 14 18:20:32 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon May 04 16:55:40 -0700 2009 Mon May 04 17:04:23 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Sep 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 12 13:55:42 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 19 19:52:45 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 29 09:10:18 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 29 13:21:34 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 24 09:52:55 -0700 2009 Fri May 01 13:58:08 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false true Wed Nov 04 15:55:37 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 04 15:55:37 -0800 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=170175