Justin & Nicole

Love Stories For Young Adults #43

by Elizabeth Craft

Help! It's prom time and once again, Nicole is without a date. Not that she needs one -- she's perfectly happy to hang out with her interesting, intelligent self. So why did she open her big mouth and announce she was going to the prom with this cute stranger she met at the mall? Not only does she not know who he is or if he's taken, she's only got three days to track him down!

Genres: Young Adult, Romance, Teen

Library Binding

First published March 7, 2000

About the author

Elizabeth Craft and Sarah Fain wrote their first piece together when they were fifteen - a feature on Kansas City delis for their high school newspaper.

They now live in Los Angeles, where Sarah and Liz are currently Writer-Producers on the Emmy-award winning show "The Shield" and James Patterson's upcoming "Women's Murder Detective Club" TV series debuting this fall on ABC.

Reviews

[Dark Viper · Rating 5 out of 5]

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[Precious · Rating 5 out of 5]

There are many reasons why I liked the book "Justin & Nicole". I knew it would be very interesting when I first checked it out. The book was about a girl, which was Nicole, who didn't have a prom date like her friends did. She was tired of her enemies clowning her about it, so she just pointed out a random boy, who was Justin, when she was at her job. She didn't really know the boy, so she got her friends to see what school he goes to and what his name was. One day, one of her friends told her she knows what school he goes to and his name, so they went to his school and she asked him, but he turned he down, but then he looked at her friends and wanted to make a deal, so she did and the deal was for her to introduce him to her friend Christy, so she agreed to it. So, Nicole and Justin went to prom with each other and she was just so ready to do her side of the deal since he did his, but she couldn't find Christy anywhere but before she had seen her there, so she started thinking she left, but she didn't. Justin asked Nicole to dance in the middle of the dance floor and they did, but Justin started thinking about his ex-girlfriend and he didn't really want to get close to another girl, so he ran out of the gymnasium and left Nicole there alone. Nicole thought he ditched her, but he didn't, he just needed to clear his mind. While he was outside he ran into Christy and they started talking and he told her that if she needed someone to talk to, he was there for her and then he went back into the building, and Nicole was happy, because she told him that she thought he had left her. They went back to dancing, but she was still thinking about completing her side of the deal, but he wasn't really worrying bout it, because he had then already talked to her. The dance ended and she was upset, because she doesn't know that him and Christy talked, so she did stay with her side of the deal. He wanted to talk to her before he let her out the car to go home, but she wasn't really in the mood for talking and, because she didn't think that he would want to talk to her, because he wanted to talk to Christy so bad. A few days later, Nicole found out that him and her friend did talk, so she was upset for nothing and she felt really bad about treating Justin like she did. She called him and talked to him about what happened the night of prom and he really didn't understand why she was acting like she was, because she really didn't want to tell her, but she ended up telling him why she was and he finally understood. Justin told her the reason he wanted to meet Christy, also and she understood where he was comming from, too. Justin told hisself that he wouldn't get involved with another girl after him and his ex-girlfriend broke up, but he is really starting to get feelings for Nicole. One, day he was brave enough to tell her how he feels about her and she noticed that they have the same feelings for each other, so Nicole and Justin started dating. After all the lies and the deal that was made it was unnecessary, because now they are going out for real now. Well at least she wouldn't have to tell her enemies that she made a deal with him to go out with her, because then, they would really be clowning her about not having a prom date. My opinion was that they were gonna get together, because of the fact that they were having problems and they were gaining feelings for each other. It's like every story of when someone doesn't like the person that is paying them to go out with them or something like that, they end up really going together. Maybe, its like that, because they kind of know how the person is and how the act, but basically, their personality, so that is why they would be like of yea I would go out with her, since I practically know her. This book "Justin & Nicole: Prom Trilogy" was so interesting and its talking about things that really happens when prom night comes up for all schools, because I think people that don't have lovers before prom and just all of a sudden have a date to prom, they are the main ones that like pay people, bribe them, or something else, just so they will go to prom with them.

[Hpitcher]

cute. but everything kind of progressed too quickly in my opinion

[Laresa]

its a good book I like it