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READ & DOWNLOAD Ú Prom By Laurie Halse Anderson St 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 h. So I haven t uite finished this book but I ll get there today and I decided to just write my review now since I have a pretty good grasp on this book over halfway through and the plot hasn t changed much from what was presented in the beginning so I can pretty much guess how it s going to end If anything does change my mind about it later I ll update this review Finished That saidAnderson s niche is young adult novels about suburban middle class white girls with dysfunctional families and real world pressing issues She is uncannily good at getting into the minds of this particular kind of adolescent girl and she tends to present these characters as engaging and true to life even or especially when they aren t exactly being the most sympathetic people at the time And then there s Ashley HanniganAshley Hannigan a working class girl with a part time crappy retai

READ & DOWNLOAD Ú Prom By Laurie Halse Anderson 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 be. About 15th 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 kidsAnderson 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 hangs out with hard partying kids but none of them have conseuences That s an upper middle class reality not the reality for families that are too cash strapped to get their kids a good lawyerThe narrator Ashley lacks authenticity She just doesn t feel real She has a bazillion detentions but doesn t ever earn them during the book She seems to ditch class regularly but the conseuences

SUMMARY ↠ IBCTHAI.CO ✓ Laurie Halse Anderson

READ & DOWNLOAD Ú Prom By Laurie Halse Anderson Elp 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. 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 isn t going to college her ambitions don t stretch further than having enough money to buy a car She has plenty of friends but she s not the popular girl She has a boyfriend but it s not exactly true loveUnfortunately there s little plot to be found amid this carefully constructed milieu of average ness Anderson is excellent at world building adding small touches that are both true and telling eg fights at school are pure sport just as long as the boys fighting are of the same race if not panic The author also has a knack for creating comic situations and absurd details The result is not