Prom!

Prom for DDHS is this weekend -- why not get in the spirit by reading a book about one of the biggest nights of your high school experience? Links go to our catalog, where you can place a hold on the book from home with your library card.


Prom and Prejudice by Elizabeth Eulberg: For Lizzie Bennett, a music scholarship student at Connecticut's exclusive, girls-only Longbourn Academy, the furor over prom is senseless, but even more puzzling is her attraction to the pompous Will Darcy, best friend of her roommate's boyfriend.

Will Work for Prom Dress by Aimee Ferris: Seventeen-year-old Quigley and her best friend Anne have big plans to prepare for prom, including working to earn money for dresses, but both girls seem to have chosen their prospective dates badly as Anne's family crisis affects them all. Bonus: check out this website featuring a ton of teen authors in their old prom photos!

The Anti-Prom by Abby McDonald: 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.

Prom by Laurie Halse Anderson: 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.

21 Proms edited by Daniel Ehrenhaft: This collection of short stories about the ups and downs of prom features works by John Green, Holly Black, Libba Bray, and many more.

24 Girls in 7 Days by Alex Bradley: Jack Grammar, average American senior, has no date to the prom. Or so he thinks. Percy and Natalie, Jack's so-called best friends, post an ad in the classified section of the online version of the school newspaper. They figure it couldn't hurt. After all, there's not much in this world sadder than Jack's love life. Soon Percy and Natalie have assembled a list of girls eager to go to the prom with Jack, including one mysterious girl known only as FancyPants. He has just seven days to meet and date them before he will ask one special girl to the prom.

Prom Dates from Hell by Rosemary Clement-Moore: High school senior and yearbook photographer Maggie thought she would rather die than go to prom, but when a classmate summons a revenge-seeking demon, she has no choice but to buy herself a dress and prepare to face jocks, cheerleaders, and Evil Incarnate.

Suzi Clue: The Prom Queen Curse by Michelle Kehm: Suzi Clue, a mystery-obsessed freshman with her own sense of style, investigates "the curse of the prom queen" at Seattle's Mountain High School.

Perfectly Dateless by Kristin Billerbeck: Entering her senior year at St. James Christian Academy, Daisy has less than 200 days to look stylish, develop social skills, find the right boy for the prom, and convince her parents to let her date.

Fat Hoochie Prom Queen by Nico Medina: Large, loud Margarita truly hates student body president Bridget Benson, a stuck-up television star whom Madge was friends with when both were child actresses, so when Bridget challenges her to a contest to win prom queen, Madge tells her to "get ready to lose by a landslide."

Prom Crashers by Erin Downing: It was love at first sight for Emily and Ethan. But then Em lost his number and , with it, all hope of finding a real boyfriend before the end of senior year. All she knows about Ethan is his first name, that he has a supercute smile, and that he's going to a prom this month. Which high school? That's anyone's guess.