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Prom Date Kindle Edition

by Diane Hoh (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars 65 ratings
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As prom approaches, a killer targets the most popular girls in school
Margaret Dunne’s afternoon job at her mother’s dress shop is usually tranquil, but in the weeks leading up to prom, her work is nonstop. She wouldn’t mind helping the popular girls try on dresses if she had a date too, but boys hardly look at Margaret. After a particularly grueling day taking abuse from three popular girls, Margaret finds a strange package in the alley behind the shop. Inside are the three girls’ dresses—mangled, muddied, and completely ruined. Plenty of people hate the popular clique, but why take it out on their prom dresses? A few days later, Margaret sneaks off from the senior picnic to enjoy the view from the old lighthouse. A scream pierces the air, and Margaret sees one of the popular girls, Stephanie, dead at the bottom of a cliff. It seems someone at her school has her eye on Stephanie’s perfect date, and will kill to get her hands on him. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Diane Hoh including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author’s personal collection.
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  1. Reading age
    12 - 18 years
  2. Print length
    207 pages
  3. Language
    English
  4. Grade level
    7 - 12
  5. Publisher
    Open Road Media Teen & Tween
  6. Publication date
    March 27, 2012
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About the Author

Diane Hoh (b. 1937) is a bestselling author of young adult fiction. Born in Warren, Pennsylvania, Hoh began her first novel, Loving That O’Connor Boy (1985),after seeing an ad in a publishing trade magazine requesting submissions for a line of young adult fiction. After contributing novels to two popular series, Cheerleaders and the Girls of Canby Hall, Hoh found great success writing thrillers, beginning with Funhouse (1990), a Point Horror novel that became a national bestseller. Following its success, Hoh created the Nightmare Hall series, whose twenty-nine installments chronicle a university plagued by dark secrets, and the seven-volume Med Center series, about the challenges and mysteries in a Massachusetts hospital. In 1998, Hoh had a runaway hit with Titanic: The Long Night and Remembering the Titanic, a pair of novels about two couples’ escape from the doomed ocean liner. She now lives and writes in Austin.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B007GQXGRU
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Open Road Media Teen & Tween (March 27, 2012)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ March 27, 2012
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 3785 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
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  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 207 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars 65 ratings

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Kristie Jones
5.0 out of 5 stars Prom can be a killer...
Reviewed in the United States on June 6, 2020
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This is another nostalgia read for me, and I’m really happy to have found it on Kindle!

Within the first of second chapter a girl is killed, horrifically pushed off the top of an abandoned life house (I’ve always had a fear of heights but this made it worse!).
Margret, a fairly unpopular girl but with a close set of friends who have all decided against going to their Senior Prom, was actually at the lighthouse first with her crush, popular guy Mitch during their Senior picnic at the nearby park. Mitch, much to her confusion, knows her name and starts a conversation while walking her back to the park.
They hear a scream and end up finding, to their horror, the dead body of the most popular girl in school in the water just below the lighthouse.

As the book progresses Mitch asks Margret to the Prom and she accepts, causing tension within her group of friends. Then the ‘Pop’s’ (popular, mean girls) who are up for Prom Queen begin having violent encounters, Margret herself ends up being a target even though she’s not part of their clique.
As Margret deals with tensions in her friend group, helping her mother at her dress store and her newfound relationship with Mitch she try’s to figure out who the killer is. The climax to the mystery is good, but I don’t think I appreciated it when I was a teenager myself.

The author does an excellent job of portraying mental illness (something I was not familiar with at all as a teen). Their are a few chapters from the killers point of view that show how they are slowly becoming more and more unhinged.
At the time it was written mental illness didn’t have the platform it does in 2020, I understood some of the actions (such as the prom scene) so much better.
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Amethyst
4.0 out of 5 stars A great book =)
Reviewed in the United States on April 19, 2003
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Prom Date is a great YA thriller.
There is a break-in at the dress shop called, the Quartet. Some prom dresses are destroyed. The destroyed dresses were gonna be worn to the prom by some of the most popular girls of Toomey High, whom Margaret Dunne and her friends referred to as the 'Pops'.
The book really starts out on Chapter-3, where the Toomey High School senior picnic is being held. The main character, Margaret is bored and goes to the old aging lighthouse, which she loves going to despite the danger and warning signs. As she listened to the breakers crashing into the rocks she is met by the voice of Mitch McGill, one of the most popular/nicest boy from her school. They chatted for a little while and end up talking about the break-in at her mother's dress shop, the Quartet. Mitch's brother was one of the cops that night. While they were walking back to the picnic they heard a scream that came from the lighthouse. They ran back.
They find the body of Stephanie Markham(one of the 'pops') in the water.
People think that it was just an accident and think that the old rail on the lighthouse has just finally gave way... which led to Stephaie's dreadful fall, but then there are those that know differently...
There is someone out there that would just do about anything to get a prom date... but who is it?
I thought the ending was wonderful, almost made me teary eyed =)
Check out Diane Hoh's Nightmare Hall series!
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Beryl
5.0 out of 5 stars Prom Date
Reviewed in the United States on June 25, 2021
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This book was very well written! Once you are fortunate enough to have purchased this book you will be very glad you did. But warning! Make sure you have allotted time to read it because after the first chapter is read, you will NOT want to put the book down. I had to make sure I allotted the time to just read this book and so glad I did. Very interesting and exciting to read, keeps the reader guessing exactly who the guilty person is!
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Thrilled
5.0 out of 5 stars SUPER GOOD!
Reviewed in the United States on June 18, 2022
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One of my favorite books now, this one had me glued to the page the entire story and GUESSING over and over, and being very, very wrong, about what was happening and who was behind this nightmare!
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J. Lassiter
4.0 out of 5 stars Pleasantly surprised, a must for Beneke/Miller fans
Reviewed in the United States on June 7, 2009
Like most Beneke/Miller fans, I have been highly disappointed that no one has yet put out a complete collection of all of Beneke's 1946-1950 RCA recordings, like they did with the original Miller Orchestra's 1938-1942 recordings. Much of what's available of Beneke's solo work on CD comes from cheap, obscure labels that mix in commercial sides with radio/live material and don't even bother to indicate which is which. However, there is a small handful of quality compilations that stand out, this being one of them. Unfortunately, there is no information about personnel or recording dates, but these clearly sound like studio sides, all of which were issued on RCA 78's during the 46-50 period. And luckily, most of the material on here is NOT duplicated from the other Beneke compilations on ASV, Jasmine, and BMG, which often overlap each other with Beneke's more successful recordings.
The centerpiece of "Prom Date" is a 1947 78 album of the same name, which highlights 8 well-known college songs. The rest of the material is drawn from 78 singles. Overall, I was very impressed with the sound quality of this particular compilation, which I think actually outperforms the others, which often have slight surface noise on most of the tracks. This one seems crystal clear throughout, however.
Very nice collection.
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Susan Hornberger-Staff
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Shirt Read
Reviewed in the United States on January 18, 2015
Great book. Very suspenseful and kept me turning the pages. I wanted to skip to the end to see who it was but just kept reading. Excellent!
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La Stoller
5.0 out of 5 stars Prom Date
Reviewed in the United States on January 27, 2005
I give this book 5 stars because I thought this book was very interesting, and confusing story I have read. The story was confusing because you wanted to know who killed the person and it says that a lot of people do things and you think its that person. I liked when the no popular girl went to prom, which she wasn't planning to go, but she got a date. The part that I didn't like was when one of popular girls killed one of her best friends just for prom queen. There was a lot of different things happening. A lot of things happen like things from the book, but not by killing.
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Mel Mel
4.0 out of 5 stars worth a read
Reviewed in the United States on July 21, 2005
I enjoyed this book because the characters were more developed than in most books of this reading level. The story keeps your attention and moves along quickly which is surprising due to its long length (compared to other books of this type).
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Millie
5.0 out of 5 stars Recommended to everyone
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 12, 2017
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By far my favourite Point Horror book yet; builds suspense at all the right times, has the perfect grisly descriptions that aren't so horrific you feel sick and overall a truly amazing read.
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Priscilla Wiredu
5.0 out of 5 stars Prom being the highlight of teens' lives..
Reviewed in Canada on March 17, 2016
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Protagonist's friends were douchebags, but overall this was a great book!
So much suspense, so much mental damage with the killer

Really makes you think who is your real friend and who would kill for popularity. Read this for a thrill
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Mid-century pop”MCP”
5.0 out of 5 stars コーラスを従えたベネキの味のあるヴォーカル(J.マーサー風?)も聴きもの―音質も上々っす!
Reviewed in Japan on April 20, 2016
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◆ Tex Beneke with The Miller Orchestra(#1-14)

◆ T.Beneke & His Orch.(#15-22)

◆ T.Beneke & His `Music in The Miller Mood'(#23-25)

*feat.

◇ T.Beneke(ts,vo,leader)
◇ Gary Stevens(vo)
◇ Lilian Lane(vo)
◇ The Moonlight Serenaders(cho)
◇ Henry Mancini/Norman Leyden(arr)…

【Rec.1946-51/原盤:RCA,MGM】

♪まだジャズを聴き始めて間もない頃、知り合いのヴェテラン・リスナーに、「テックス・ベネキ??あんな下品なテナーのどこがいいの?」と呆れられたことがある。個人的にそうは思えなかったものの、何となくそれが頭に残ってしまい、以来彼の音盤を積極的に聴くことは殆どなくなってしまった―のだが、今回格安の中古盤を入手し久々に耳にしてみると…

♪イヤ良いじゃないっすか!!これが“下品”??今思えばその先輩はジャズやクラシック以外には全く興味が無いようだったし、もし“ホンカー”やなんかも嗜む、より守備範囲の広い方だったなら、むしろ「いかにもジャズの人らしいスマートでよく唄うテナーだね!!」ってな評価だったのかも知れない―

♪親分のグレンが戦死した後、ベネキはミラー楽団を1950年まで引き継ぐことになるわけだが、当コンピでは、あのスウィートな“ミラー・サウンド”を継承しつヽも、ビバップの時代らしいモダンな息吹きをも感じさせる―そんな新鮮なバンド・スタイルが存分に堪能できる。J.デズモンド系の甘美なクルーニングを聴かせる G.スティーヴンスや、みずゝしく繊細な L.レインらヴォーカル陣もじつに魅力的だ!!
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summersun
4.0 out of 5 stars really great book couldnt put it down and delivery was prompt ...
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 21, 2018
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really great book couldnt put it down and delivery was prompt my only problem was the fact that as i got towards the end there was a page missing
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Alison Jones
5.0 out of 5 stars Very good seller
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 5, 2021
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