Promgate

By Lara Zielin

Subjects: Pregnancy, Mothers and daughters, fiction, Friendship, fiction, Identity, High schools, Goth culture (Subculture), Schools, fiction, Fiction, Children's fiction, Pregnancy, fiction, Schools, Mothers and daughters, Best friends, Friendship

Description: Sixteen-year-old Aggie feels compelled to investigate rumors that her cancer-stricken mother, principal of her small Wisconsin high school, has rigged the prom queen election to keep Aggie's best friend Sylvia, a pregnant Goth, from winning.