Prom, Laurie Halse Anderson

Anderson, Laurie Halse. (2005).
Prom.
New York: Viking.
0670059749
Genre: Realistic Fiction, Chick-Lit

Eighteen-year-old Ash wants nothing to do with senior prom, but when disaster strikes and her desperate friend, Nat, needs her help to get it back on track, Ash's involvement transforms her life.
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Starred in Booklist, Anderson’s Prom offers a warm and amusing story about practical eighteen- year-old Ashley who lives in a working class Philadelphia town that is obsessed with the prom. The catch is Ashley is completely anti-prom; she’s more focused on graduating and getting an apartment with her nineteen-year-old boyfriend, TJ who happens to be a high-school drop out. In an authentic voice, Ashley shares the details of her humdrum and, at times, mortifying life: her job as a character at EZ-CHEEZ-E, her gorgeous but loser boyfriend TJ, her wacky family, including her pregnant mom. When the math teacher at her high school steals the prom fund and Ashley’s prom-obsessed best friend Nat breaks her leg, the true bonds of friendship become clear: Ashley pairs up with Nat (who heads the prom committee) to make prom happen in just eleven days! If that isn’t enough, Ashley’s detentions and grades may keep her from attending the prom she is so desperately trying to plan. Anderson’s energetic, quick-paced novel is sure to keep anti-prom and pro-prom readers enthralled as they witness Ashley’s heroic behavior and success at saving the prom. Readers will appreciate Ashley’s realistic perspective as she realizes that living with her boyfriend is not her only option after high school. Young adults will enjoy this modern, realistic, fun take on a fairy tale.