5 BEST BOOKS TO READ INSTEAD OF
GOING TO THE PROM...

Prom Schmom.

You spend all your money on a dress you will wear only once, give yourself a serious inferiority complex figuring out who to ask and will probably get grounded for coming home after your curfew. In the end, while you may have a few cute pictures of your friends, you may also have to deal with some nasty guy asking you to dance or the indignity of seeing your date traipse off with someone else.

Face it: The prom is no fun.

Think you will like it because you love to dance? I hate to be a downer, but the deejay is going to reek and your teachers will be there. Dancing. These are people who should never ever attempt to dance and yet there they will be, center of the floor, electric sliding to "Don't Think I'm Not."

Did I mention the food will not be meant for human consumption? And forget it if you are vegetarian: you'll probably be able to eat the bread and that's it.

Is a few hours in some badly decorated gym or tacky hall worth the toll it takes on your wallet and your sanity?

No, I say.

Stay home instead, give yourself a facial and eat nachos with extra sour cream. You'll have a much better evening then your poor best friend who gets suspended for doing donuts on the principal's lawn.

My gift to you:

 

	THE PROM QUEEN by R. L. Stine Archway ISBN: 0671724851
	HOW I CREATED MY PERFECT PROM DATE by Todd Strasser Aladdin Paperbacks ISBN: 0689820747
	TALES FROM THE PROM by Elissa Stein and Daniel Mailiard Griffin Trade Paperback ISBN: 0312187645
	PROM DATE by Diane Hoh Point ISBN: 0590544292
Want a book that will really dissuade you from going? The mother of all high school horror books:
	CARRIE by Stephen King Pocket Books ISBN: 0671039725
Don't say I didn't warn you.

   --- Compiled by Serena Burns

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