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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. An outcast at her small-town Georgia high school, Madison Washington has always been a teasing target for bullies. And she's dealt with it because she has more pressing problems to manage. Until the morning a surprise rainstorm reveals her most closely kept secret: Maddy is biracial. She...
2) Promchanted
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Publisher
DisneyHyperion
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Stella is obsessed with logistics and problem solving, and does not have time for fairy tales, but on a pre-prom visit to Disneyland she and Reece (a boy she accidentally got fired) get swept up in the world of Sleeping Beauty, and the girl who believes in logic, not fantasy, finds herself in a very illogical situation.
3) Cupcake
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Publisher
Entangled Teen, an imprint of Entangled Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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After a former "big-boned" high school girl sheds a few pounds and has now been selected as homecoming princess, she is paired with a shy homecoming prince, who has issues of his own
After high school senior Ariel "Cupcake" Duncan wins a surprise place in the homecoming court, she must deal with a mean girl gunning for homecoming queen as well as her growing feelings for the senior boy picked to be her homecoming "prince."
Ariel "Cupcake" Duncan...
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"All Luis Gonzalez wants is to go to prom with his boyfriend, something his “progressive” school still doesn't allow. Not after what happened with Chaz Wilson. But that was ages ago, when Luis's parents were in high school; it would never happen today, right? He's determined to find a way to give his LGBTQ friends the respect they deserve (while also not risking his chance to be prom king, just saying…). When a hit on the head knocks him back...
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Point, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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All year, JJ's been looking forward to going to prom with his best friend, Lucy. It will be their last hurrah before graduation--a perfect night for all their friends to relax, have fun together, and celebrate making it through high school. But nothing goes according to plan. When a near-car crash derails JJ before he even gets to prom and Lucy can't figure out what happened to him, things spiral out of control. The best night of their lives quickly...
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Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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2021-2022 Middle School TAB Nominations
2021-2022 Middle School TAB Nominations in E-Book and E-Audiobook
Latinx Authors: Books for Teens
2021-2022 Middle School TAB Nominations in E-Book and E-Audiobook
Latinx Authors: Books for Teens
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At seventeen Simone Thibodeaux is fed up with her over-protective mother's insistence on micro-managing her life, like picking her prom date from a "nice" Haitian immigrant family, and anyway she is determined to attend with Gavin Stackhouse (even if he does not know that yet); so together with her fellow late-bloomer friends Simone comes up with a bucket list of rule-breaking (like cutting classes, and sneaking out of the house)--but soon things...
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Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2011.
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English
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On prom night, Bliss, Jolene, and Meg, students from the same high school who barely know one another, band together to get revenge against Bliss's boyfriend and her best friend, whom she caught together in the limousine they rented.
8) Promposal
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Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
©2015.
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English
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Camilla hopes her secret crush, Benjamin, might ask her to prom but feels pressured into accepting the invitation of a casual acquaintance, and Joshua's worked up the courage to ask his best friend, Ethan, to be his date when Ethan asks his help in crafting the perfect "promposal" for another boy.
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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In her last few weeks at Northern Virginia's elite Chawton School, eighteen-year-old Jemima Kincaid works to up-end its patriarchal traditions and, in the process, finds the freedom she has always sought.
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, alongside superstar...
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Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[2012]
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English
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Told in separate voices, Azure, who is a lesbian, and Luke, who is bisexual, help plan an inclusive senior prom while Luke is writing and producing a musical about his life, both are working through the crush they have on their friend Radhika, and all three are dealing with problems at home.
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When his older sister encourages him to ask someone to the prom, things do not go as planned and Nolan ends up fake dating a guy who used to bully him.
Nolan Grant is sixteen, gay, and very, very single. 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 involves an...
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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Books You May Have Missed 2020: Combined
For Fans of Heartstopper
Reese's YA Book Club
Stonewall Book Award - Mike Morgan & Larry Romans Children's and Young Adult Literature Award
For Fans of Heartstopper
Reese's YA Book Club
Stonewall Book Award - Mike Morgan & Larry Romans Children's and Young Adult Literature Award
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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, after all, her family is black and rather poor, especially since her mother died; instead she has concentrated on her grades and her musical ability in the hopes that it will win her a scholarship to elite Pennington College and their famous orchestra where she plans to study medicine--but when that scholarship falls through...
Author
Publisher
Wonderbooks
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Español
Description
"Ha llegado la hora de cambiar el cuento de hadas. Liz Lighty siempre ha sido demasiado negra, demasiado pobre y demasiado diferente para Campbell, el pueblo en el que vive, donde todas las chicas están obsesionadas con ser la reina del baile. Sin embargo, Liz tiene un plan para salir de allí: entrar en la banda de música de la prestigiosa Universidad de Pennington y conseguir una beca para estudiar Medicina. Pero su plan no sale bien y a Liz solo...
14) Prom babies
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Publisher
Henry Holt Books and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"Mina, Penny, and Sheryl have the typical expectations of prom night in 2005: dresses, dancing, and of course some coming of age moments. None of them plans to get pregnant, but when all three do, they band together as they face decisions that have the power to shape the rest of their lives. In 2024, their three children--Blossom, Amber, and Cole--are high school seniors, gearing up to go to prom and facing some big decisions of their own. As they...
15) Promposal
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Poppy, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"High school senior Autumn Reeves has been waitlisted at her dream school. Determined to move to the top of the list, she must find a way to stand out. When a promposal she planned for a friend has half the senior class asking for her help, a brilliant business idea that will look great on her application is born: Promposal Queen. Autumn has no clue how to start a business, so she joins the Young Black Entrepreneurs group and finds herself face-to-face...
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Joy Revolution
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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"Ivelisse Santos has had Joaquin Romero's back since their first playdate. Not just next-door neighbors, they're platonic soulmates. At least, that's what Ive thinks, until Joaquin decides to ask Tessa Hernandez, the same girl who stole Ive's boyfriend, to prom. Sure, the head cheerleader and the star baseball player going to prom together makes more sense than Joaquin and Ivelisse-leader of tech crew-would. But that doesn't mean it should actually...
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