Prom Dates from Hell

Prom Dates from Hell
Author: Rosemary Clement-Moore
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2008-04-22
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 0375849076

Maggie Quinn, girl reporter. Honors student, newspaper staffer, yearbook photographer. Six weeks from graduation and all she wants to do is get out of Avalon High in one piece. A sensible nerd would have kept her head down, done her drive-by photo shoot of the prom, and continued the countdown to Deploma Day. But fate seems to have different plans for Maggie. High school may be a natural breeding ground for evil, but the scent of fire and brimstone is still a little out of the ordinary. It's the distinct smell of sulfur that makes Maggie suspect that something's a bit off. And when real Twilight Zone stuff starts happening to the school's ruling clique—the athletic elite and the head cheerleader and her minions, all of whom happen to be named Jessica—Maggie realizes it's up to her to get in touch with her inner Nancy Drew and ferret out who unleashed the ancient evil before all hell breaks loose. Maggie has always suspected that prom is the work of the devil, but it looks like her attendance will be mandatory. Sometimes a girl's got to do some pretty undesirable things if she wants to save her town from soul-crushing demons from hell. And the cheerleading squad. "Dripping with wit on nearly every page."-School Library Journal "Smart (and smart-ass)."-KLIATT "There is a lot to like in this story that takes on magic, romance, and even clique politics."-Publisher's Weekly "Fans of shows like Charmed and Buffy the Vampire Slayer will relish the unflappable, edgy humor Maggie brings to her fight against supernatural evil."-The Horn Book Magazine "Sharp, sarcastic wit...[This book] will appeal to supernatural fans of Meg Cabot's Mediator series."-VOYA

The Date to Save

The Date to Save
Author: Stephanie Kate Strohm
Publisher: Scholastic UK
Total Pages: 229
Release: 2017-11-02
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1407181661

After a scheduling mishap occurs one student tracks how her high school's homecoming game, the academic battle, and class election all ended up on the same day with hilarious results!

Who Killed the Homecoming Queen?

Who Killed the Homecoming Queen?
Author: R.L. Stine
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2008-06-30
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1439121257

Tania is having the best year of her life. She has a hot new boyfriend, she landed the starring role in a student film, and she’s just been voted homecoming queen. But someone is jealous of Tania. Someone plans to ruin her perfect year—even if that means killing her. Will Tania live to see the homecoming dance?

The Dawn of Tomorrow

The Dawn of Tomorrow
Author: Dr. David E. Miller
Publisher: America Star Books
Total Pages: 548
Release: 2016-08-10
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1683946383

The central character, David Rafflinstein, is an only child…an imaginative, creative and highly intelligent young man. David’s passions in life are music and science. As he reaches junior high school, he encounters two new influences which are destined to shape the course of the rest of his life. One is his passion for music and a desire to become Drum Major for his school marching band. The second comes in the form of the enticingly mysterious Mr. Roberts who offers David success in everything he does. This man is part of a supposed secret organization of German Nobles who have developed a remarkable and frightening advanced technology to further their mission…the restoration of Imperial Germany and a thinly-disguised reprise of the mania of ethnic purity and Aryan supremacy so familiar from the recent nightmare of Hitler’s Third Reich.

The Homecoming Masquerade (Girls Wearing Black, #1)

The Homecoming Masquerade (Girls Wearing Black, #1)
Author: Spencer Baum
Publisher: Spencer Baum
Total Pages: 129
Release: 2014-08-24
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

In a posh suburb of the nation’s capital, at the most exclusive high school in the world, the vampires who secretly run the government have created a game for America’s daughters of privilege. Show up to Homecoming in a black dress and you’ve entered yourself in a contest where the winner becomes a vampire, and the loser becomes the winner’s first victim. Only the wealthiest, most connected students can hope to win, so when new girl Nicky Bloom wears a black dress to Homecoming, everyone assumes she has a death wish. They don’t know that Nicky has her own agenda. As the dance continues into the night, they will find out that Nicky Bloom is far more than she seems.

The First Date (The Dating Games Book #1)

The First Date (The Dating Games Book #1)
Author: Melody Carlson
Publisher: Revell
Total Pages: 203
Release: 2013-10-15
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1441243011

Five high school friends have one thing in common as they start their sophomore year: none of them have ever been on a "real" date. With homecoming looming, they make a pact and start a secret club they call the DG (Dating Game). They're sworn to secrecy--and to purity--but the club is their way to set each other up on their first dates so they can report back to the DG. Of course, they all make different choices about how to deal with their parents and how to act on their dates, and they discover that they all have totally different experiences. Still, the things they learn about boys and dating will stick with them throughout high school. Bestselling author and teen favorite Melody Carlson starts off her newest series with a good dose of fun, tackling two topics teen girls love to read about--friends and boys.

African American Culture and Society After Rodney King

African American Culture and Society After Rodney King
Author: Josephine Metcalf
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 405
Release: 2016-03-09
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1317184386

1992 was a pivotal moment in African American history, with the Rodney King riots providing palpable evidence of racialized police brutality, media stereotyping of African Americans, and institutional discrimination. Following the twentieth anniversary of the Los Angeles uprising, this time period allows reflection on the shifting state of race in America, considering these stark realities as well as the election of the country's first black president, a growing African American middle class, and the black authors and artists significantly contributing to America's cultural output. Divided into six sections, (The African American Criminal in Culture and Media; Slave Voices and Bodies in Poetry and Plays; Representing African American Gender and Sexuality in Pop-Culture and Society; Black Cultural Production in Music and Dance; Obama and the Politics of Race; and Ongoing Realities and the Meaning of 'Blackness') this book is an engaging collection of chapters, varied in critical content and theoretical standpoints, linked by their intellectual stimulation and fascination with African American life, and questioning how and to what extent American culture and society is 'past' race. The chapters are united by an intertwined sense of progression and regression which addresses the diverse dynamics of continuity and change that have defined shifts in the African American experience over the past twenty years.

We the People Are Good to Eat

We the People Are Good to Eat
Author: William D'Andrea
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 171
Release: 2011-12-10
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1105342352

In a fatally overpopulated future Earth, all that the people have to eat is each other, and they thank God for every meal. In this world, keeping the population trimmed and the meat quota filled, is every citizen's responsibility. Gladiator type combat games have become a high school sport. This is the students' way of participating in both the population trimming and meat harvest. A Cheerleader discovers that some things in this world are not the way that everyone believes, and strange things begin to happen. "A week ago," she said, "I was killed for food, and all was right with the world. Now I'm alive again, and the world's turned upside down."

Dark Passions

Dark Passions
Author: A. J. Ciulla
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2000-08
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0595010695

Jenny Jones was an orphan. There were painfully few safety nets in our society for young, orphaned females, Jenny married not a man of choice but for desperate need. When the alcoholic husband died in the bootleg war, leaving her with an infant son she was drawn into a private war- one of survival in a hostile world. Her son grown to manhood entered that world too. If there was one thing that both sought out of life, it was true love. Circumstances drew mother and son close together. The neighborhood would frown if they had openly showed their affection for each other. Long before Tom Brokaw, A.J. Ciulla knew that his generation was the greatest in the history of our republic. The three decades that encompass the duration of Dark Passions are those that molded the character of the nation. The book is by no means meant to glorify the past. The warts and beauty marks are evenly distributed. This is not A.J. Ciulla the short story writer. Dark Passions is a hard-hitting with no holds barred novel.