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• 10 Things I Hate About Prom

  Rose, Elle Gonzalez,

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  There are more than ten things to hate about prom, but the worst thing is when your lovable best friend wants to go with someone else.

• As You Walk on by

  Winters, Julian,

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  After a disastrous promposal at a party, seventeen-year-old Theo has an existential crisis upstairs in an empty bedroom, but as the night progresses, various classmates also seek refuge from the party, and Theo finds he is not as alone as…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Better Than the Movies

  Painter, Lynn,

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  Michael, to whom Liz Buxbaum gave her heart long ago, has returned but to get his attention and, perhaps, a prom date she must scheme with her nemesis Wes, her next-door neighbor.

• The Feminist Agenda of Jemima Kincaid

  Hattemer, Kate,

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  Jemima Kincaid is a feminist. Her private school is laden with problematic traditions, but the worst of all is prom. The girls have to wait for promposals, and only the hetero kids even go. When Jemima is named to Senior Triumvirate,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• How (not) to Ask a Boy to Prom

  Goslee, S. J.,

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  He's never had a boyfriend, or even been kissed. It's not like Penn Valley is exactly brimming with prospects. Nolan plans to ride out the rest of his junior year drawing narwhals, working at the greenhouse, and avoiding anything that…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Leah on the Offbeat

  Albertalli, Becky,

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  Leah Burke is an anomaly in her friend group: the only child of a young, single mom; her life is decidedly less privileged. She loves to draw but is too self-conscious to show it. And even though her mom knows she's bisexual, she hasn't…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Night to Die for

  Schroeder, Lisa,

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  Just when Mario thought the night couldn't get any worse, he sees something on the side of the road while driving home. That something is Prom Queen Maribelle Starr--murdered and left for dead

• Once Upon a K-prom

  Cho, Kat,

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  Instead of going to prom, seventeen-year-old Elena Soo wants to spend her time saving the local community center, and she is determined to keep her priorities straight even when her childhood best friend--who is now a K-pop…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Prom

  a Novel Based on the Hit Broadway Musical

  Mitchell, Saundra,

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  Emma Nolan wants only one thing before she graduates: to dance with her girlfriend at the senior prom. But in her small town of Edgewater, Indiana, that's like asking for the moon. Alyssa Greene is her high school's "it" girl: popular,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Prom Babies

  Magoon, Kekla,

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  A multi-generational novel beginning with three teen girls who become pregnant on prom night, and picking up as their three teens head to prom eighteen years later.

• Prom House

  Mueller, Chelsea,

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  Ten people are invited to share a prom house at the Jersey Shore for the weekend. Every one of them has a secret . . . and when one by one they begin to die, panic ensues. Could somebody's prom date also be . . . a killer?

• Prom Theory

  LaBar, Ann,

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  Iris Oxtabee, who has Nonverbal Learning Disability, decides to prove love is simply chemistry by getting popular, newly-single Theo Grant to ask her to prom--complicating her friendship with Seth.

• A Prom to Remember

  Hall, Sandy (Librarian),

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  Told from the perspectives of a diverse group of seniors, this romance explores first love, break-ups, promposals, and the anxiety and anticipation of an after-prom hotel room stay.

• Promposal

  Garrett, RaeChell,

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  When the school of her dreams puts on her on the wait list, Autumn enlists the help of a former crush turned rival to form a promposal service in hopes of impressing the admissions committee.

• Pumpkin

  Murphy, Julie, 1985-

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  Creating a drag-show audition tape that culminates in an unkind nomination for prom queen, an overweight and openly gay teen partners with a girl who has been nominated for prom king to embrace their true selves.

• The Sky Blues

  Couch, Robbie,

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  Seventeen-year-old Sky, openly gay but under the radar, decides to make a splashy Promposal but his plans are leaked by an anonymous, homophobic hacker, moving his classmates to help him expose the perpetrator.

• Spin Me Right Round

  Valdes Greenwood, David,

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  Luis just wants to go to prom with his boyfriend, something his "progressive" high school hasn't allowed since an incident ages ago. Not after what happened to Chaz Wilson-- back when Luis's parents were in high school. Then a hit on the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Weight of Blood

  Jackson, Tiffany D.,

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  When Springville residents--at least the ones still alive--are questioned about what happened on prom night, they all have the same explanation . . . Maddy did it.

• You Should See Me in a Crown

  Johnson, Leah (Young adult author),

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  Liz Lighty has always done her best to avoid the spotlight in her small, wealthy, and prom-obsessed midwestern high school, but when a music scholarship falls through she is forced to turn to her school's scholarship for prom king and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Your Plantation Prom Is Not Okay

  McWilliams, Kelly,

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  High school senior Harriet is still grappling with her mother's death when an unwanted property sale causes her to join forces with her new neighbor to stop Belle Grove Plantation from turning into a wedding venue.