The Prom Queen

March 1, 2013
Grades 6-10 Hard work by your friends and fairy-tale good luck can get you elected prom queenif you want it badly enough. After catching a televangelist's message to believe it and receive it, Megan decides that the prom crown will be hers. As part of her campaign during the months running up to prom, she tries to get involved in a range of extracurricular activities at her Christian high school, do good works, show leadership, lose weight, and get a date for the big night. While the teen guy characters don't feel fully developed, Megan and her girlfriends are presented as credibly flawed and sympathetic, and readers will enjoy all of Megan's projects to boost her electability, even if they occasionally stretch plausibility. There is no need for readers to refer to earlier episodes in the Life at Kingston High series for this entry to make sense. Hand to fans of very gentle Christian romances.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2013, American Library Association.)