num_pages: 240
description: Seventeen-year-old Emma Nolan wants only one thing before she graduates: to dance with her girlfriend at the senior prom. But in her small town of Edgewater Indiana that's like asking for the moon.Alyssa Greene is her high school's it girl: popular head of the student council and daughter of the PTA president. She also has a secret. She's been dating Emma for the last year and a half.When word gets out that Emma plans to bring a girl as her date it stirs a community-wide uproar that spirals out of control. Now the PTA led by Alyssa's mother is threatening to cancel the prom altogether.Enter Barry Glickman and Dee Dee Allen two Broadway has-beens who see Emma's story as the perfect opportunity to restore their place in the limelight. But when they arrive in Indiana to fight on Emma's behalf their good intentions go quickly south.Between Emma facing the fray head-on Alyssa wavering about coming out and Barry and Dee Dee basking in all the attention it's the perfect prom storm. Only when this unlikely group comes together do they realize that love is always worth fighting for.
language: English
title: The Prom: A Novel Based on the Hit Broadway Musical
publisher: Viking Books for Young Readers