Prom Kings and Drama Queens
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3.0 • 2 Ratings
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- $3.99
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- $3.99
Publisher Description
That summer, Hurricane Emily was in the news. The headlines shouted things like: "Emily Rocks South Florida." I wanted to be like that Emily in the headlines. I wanted to take the world by storm.
Not that I wanted to knock over mango trees or whip power lines across the sky like spaghetti. But I wanted to rock in my own way.
Emily Bennet has some impossible projects on her "To Do" list, like landing her longtime crush, Brian Harrington, and winning the job of editor in chief of the school newspaper over her arch nemesis, Daniel Cummings. And, on top of that, she's determined to do something special. Something important. Something good.
Suddenly, Emily's checking things off her list left and right. She's kissing Brian on a semiregular basis and she's raising money for a good cause by planning an Alternative Prom (but she would secretly rather go to the real one). The only item that remains is knocking Daniel Cummings off his pedestal. But when did he start to look, well, cute?
Emily's finding it harder and harder to stick to her list. And she still needs to conquer the most important item of all. Can she find her inner prom queen and figure out how to rock?
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Two things dear to teen girls quality extracurriculars that'll look good on college applications and budding romance collide in Cirrone's (Dancing in Red Shoes Will Kill You) lighthearted look at figuring out what's important. Emily Bennet, high school junior, covets the editor-in-chief spot on her school newspaper. She's also ogling Brian, a star basketball player and in-crowd hottie, who also happens to be the boy next door, having recently moved into a McMansion in her Fort Lauderdale neighborhood. Brian shows an interest in Emily just as she and Daniel, a rival for the editor's job, are assigned to write about the upcoming junior prom. A consciousness-raising episode, in which Daniel and Emily witness the near-destruction of a rival school's property but do not act, lead them to spearhead a low-cost alternative prom with a public service component. Then Brian asks her to the "real" prom. Emily is a companionable narrator, witty and self-aware: "I was a reporter on a story. A girl on a mission.... Ahh. Who was I kidding? I was a girl following the crush next door." Although the author travels well-trod territory, Emily's navigation is fresh and will keep readers going. Ages 12-up.
