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Prom
by: Laurie Halse Anderson

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Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9780142405703
ISBN: 0142405701
Label: Puffin
Manufacturer: Puffin
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 224
Publication Date: February 02, 2006
Publisher: Puffin
Reading Level: Young Adult
Sales Rank: 285691
Studio: Puffin

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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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Ages 12 and up. Who would have thought the author of the gritty classic Speak had a gift for comedy? Here she demonstrates her comedic talent in the warm and witty story of Ashley, who is definitely not a prom-type person, and her best friend Nat, who lives for the prom. When the math teacher disappears with the funds just eleven days before the dance, determined and organized Nat goes into high gear to find alternative ways to make the prom happen and drags an unwilling Ashley into the flurry of urgent details.

Ashley has enough problems in her life already, starting with the complexities of her crowded but loving working class family -- her extremely pregnant mother and her three exuberant and prom-crazy aunts, and her cab-driving father and three younger brothers, who think nothing of happily trashing the kitchen in a game of hot dog baseball. Then there’s Mr. Gilroy, the evil vice principal of discipline, who has Ashley on endless detention, her awful job at EZ-CHEEZ-E, where she has trouble seeing the customers through the eyeholes of her rat costume, and her good-looking but lowlife boyfriend TJ, who wants her to join him in a future as depressing as the dank one-room apartment he has so proudly rented for them. Not to speak of Nat’s loony grandmother, who wears her red bathing cap even when she’s not doing the backstroke in a wading pool, babbles at Ashley in Russian, and spits on the floor to show her disapproval.

But in the end it’s grandma with her skill at baking (pastries to bribe the custodians) and sewing (a magical prom dress) who saves both the prom and Ashley’s belief in herself and her future in this delightful and heartfelt novel. --Patty Campbell

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- Prom Review

School age kids may have been taught, at one point in time, by a teacher who they thought was strange. However, have you ever witnessed a teacher arrested during a quiz? In the book Prom, written by Laurie Halse Anderson, Ashley Hannigan witnesses her senior high math teacher, Miss. Crane, arrested for stealing money from the prom committee.
Prom committee chairperson Natalia was Ashley's best friend. She had wanted Ashley tot go to prom, however Ashley hated the thought of prom, dressing up didn't appeal to her; at all. Although, her mother was excited about the opportunity to pick out the perfect prom dress for her daughter, In conclusion, Ashley after helping her best friend had the time of her teenage life and an unforgettable life experience at prom.

"Mean Girls" the movie have similarities and differences to Book "Prom" by Laurie Halse Anderson. The similarities are, they are both ... Read More

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- Quick Read
The last thing Ashley Hannigan wants to do is go to her prom. It's not important. High school is not her favorite place. She wants to be done with school and move in with her boyfriend and start their life together. But she hasn't told her family that, plus she doesn't know if she can really trust her boyfriend. She has two brothers and her mom, a bus driver, is expecting another. Her dad's major project is to turn their basement into a bedroom for Ashley. He likes to take on big projects that never seem to get finished. Just one crazy loud family. Natalia, Ashley's best friend, lives next door. She is head of the Prom Committee and thinks, eats, and breathes prom! Her grandma doesn't speak English and wanders around the neighborhood usually ending up at Ashley's house making herself right at home with a can of Spaghetti-O's or in a fountain somewhere taking a swim. When the prom funds are stolen and there is a chance ... Read More

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- Cute, funny book (Beware of the 1-star reviews--they're not acurate.)
I purchased 5 copies of this book for my middle school classroom because Anderson is such a popular author among my female students. It was only after purchasing these books through Barnes and Nobel that I read the 1-star reviews on Amazon.com. The warnings of drugs, sex, and drinking made the book sound like a romance novel and because of that I did not want to put the books out on my shelves until I read the book for myself.
I have now read the book and I have to say that those who are upset about the content of the book have either not read modern young adult lit. and/or have not watched prime time TV the past few years. Yes, there are brief--and I mean brief--mentions of the "sins" I previously stated but Anderson does not go into ANY detail. I kept reading and waiting for the horrible smut that the 1-star reviewers warned me about but I got to the last page and I still hadn't found it.
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- Off-beat, down to earth, and very funny
I'm a big fan of Laurie Halse Anderson's novels, but (like most YA authors) she usually writes about teens who are in some way unusual or extraordinary. This is hardly a bad thing, of course, because it makes for an interesting story -- but here, she creates the most ordinary of characters, and makes them remarkable.

The story is set in a rough, working-class Philadelphia school, where most of the students have little money, and only modest ambitions for the future. Over the course of the novel, the main characters find unexpected resources within themselves and their community, having a few adventures along the way. The conflicts -- students versus teachers, cliques versus cliques, girlfriends versus boyfriends -- are all handled with sensitivity and humour.

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