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| Original Title: | Prom |
| ISBN: | 0142405701 (ISBN13: 9780142405703) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Ashley Hannigan |
| Setting: | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania(United States) |
Laurie Halse Anderson
Paperback | Pages: 215 pages Rating: 3.33 | 8399 Users | 938 Reviews
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Ashley Hannigan is one of the few people in her urban Philadelphia high school who doesn't care about the prom. It's pretty much the only good thing that happens there, and everyone plans to make the most of it--especially Ash's best friend, Natalia, who's the head of the committee and has prom stars in her eyes. Then the faculty advisor is busted for taking the prom money and Ash finds herself roped into putting together a gala dance. But she has plenty of help--from her large and loving (if exasperating!) family, from Nat's eccentric grandmother, from the principal, from her fellow classmates. And in making the prom happen, Ash learns some surprising things about making her life happen, too.
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| Title | : | Prom |
| Author | : | Laurie Halse Anderson |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 215 pages |
| Published | : | February 2nd 2006 by Speak (first published March 3rd 2005) |
| Categories | : | Young Adult. Fiction. Realistic Fiction. Contemporary. Teen. Romance |
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Ratings: 3.33 From 8399 Users | 938 ReviewsJudge Containing Books Prom
I listened to the audiobook because Katherine Kellgren narrates it and I love her. I've read some of the negative reviews about this and feel that they are too harsh. I enjoyed this and loved Ash's family. The characters were likable and people do really go out all big for the prom, even if they do it on a budget.Lots of swearing, drinking, and talking about sex (these are high school seniors after all).I've mentioned this before but Halse Anderson's Speak is one of my all time favorite books, YA or otherwise. I recently discovered that she's written a handful of other books, so I've been chugging through them. So far none has been anywhere near as well written as Speak, but Twisted and Catalyst were competent and better than most of that YA drivel that is out there.Prom, however, is a complete turd. Total dud. Halse Anderson generally gives her characters a fantastic voice. Her narrators sound
About 1/5th of the way into this book, I realized that this book was what an upper middle-class, suburban girl would write if she was writing about "normal", lower middle class kids.Anderson starts referring to the number of kids that are crack-whores, in jail, etc. but none of the characters in the book get into any kind of "serious" trouble. This is simply not the truth for large groups of lower middle class kids. Many lower middle class kids have friends who get into serious trouble. Ashley
Laurie Halse Anderson has long provided voice to the kind of teens that are overlooked by other authors the lonely introvert in Speak, the college-obsessed Type A personality in Catalyst and, in Prom, she turns her attention to the normal kid. Ashley isnt going to college; her ambitions dont stretch further than having enough money to buy a car. She has plenty of friends, but shes not the popular girl. She has a boyfriend, but its not exactly true love.Unfortunately, theres little plot to be
So the front cover has that 'last thing she ever wanted' tagline and the word prom written in red with a knife or something, so i guess i was expecting a teen-slasher-type affair here, maybe. So i kept expecting people to get stabbed, and then about 100 pages in still no one was dead not even the senile russian grandma and i was like huh, maybe this is just a whole book about some girl helping to plan a prom and possibly i'm cool with that. I thought TJ was going to be the obvious suspect as the
Cute, but not spectacular. I did appreciate the realness of the characters, though.
I've loved Laurie Halse Anderson since I first read Wintergirls last year, a book which I believe to be a shining example of how great teen and YA fiction can be. If Wintergirls is the shining example, Prom is... less so.I was honestly baffled. After reading Wintergirls, Speak, Catalyst and The Impossible Knife of Memory, all books which deal with real and heavy issues and are full of depth and soul, I have no idea where this came from. Prom is the polar opposite. It's shallow and vapid, with
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