![]() ![]() In a way, she's kind of like a Grease Pink Lady, only without the pink. She cuts class, she has a no-good boyfriend, she wants to be a Beauty School Dropout. Our heroine is named Ashley and I actually liked that she's a little bit of a bad girl. yeah, that's something that went over my head as a (white) teen, but as an adult, the author's attempts to have these kids talk like they're "street" is. This is something I've noticed a couple other reviewers complaining to as well, and. It's set in a bad neighborhood in Philadelphia, only it's like 1990s after school special "bad," so there's some references to unsafe neighborhoods, drugs, and gangs, and a couple of the kids in this book smoke, but there's no real consequences, and it feels more quirky than edgy. ![]() PROM, in case you couldn't tell from the title, is about prom. but apparently it came out after SPEAK did?! Whaaaaaaaat? I am #shook. In fact, I was shocked when I checked out the release dates because PROM felt like a kind of washed-out, leading-up-to-the-polished-finale debut. PROM is written by Laurie Halse Anderson, of SPEAK fame, and while SPEAK held up and was still as near and dear to my heart as it was when I read it the first time, PROM. So I'm doing this project where I'm rereading the books I read as a teen, some adult literary fiction, some young adult. ![]()
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