Eric and Kelly talk about YA prom stories and great verse novels for National Poetry Month.

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Show Notes:

There’s Something About Sweetie by Sandhya Menon

We Are The Perfect Girl by Ariel Kaplan

With The Fire On High by Elizabeth Acevedo

Destroy All Monsters by Sam J Miller

#YAGoesToProm Tweets:

Samira Ahmed

J. Anderson Coats

Brooding YA Hero

Karen M. McManus

Erin Hahn

Adam Silvera

Arvin Ahmadi

Prom Nights from Hell edited by Meg Cabot

21 Proms edited by David Levithan

The Anti-Prom by Abby McDonald

The Last Best Story by Maggie Lehrman

The Prom-Goer’s Interstellar Excursion by Chris McCoy

The Night of Your Life by Lydia Sharp

Deacon Locke Went to Prom by Brian Katcher

The Way You Make Me Feel by Maurene Goo

The Inside of Out by Jennifer Thorne

Promposal by Rhonda Helms

Leah On The Offbeat by Becky Albertalli

Bliss by Lauren Myracle

Tessa Masterson Will Go To Prom by Emily Franklin

Secret Heart by Danielle Drager

White Rose by Kip Wilson

Family by Micol Ostow

The Language of Fire: Joan of Arc Reimagined by Stephanie Hemphill

The Final Hours of Joan of Arc by David Elliott

I Felt a Funeral in my Brain by Wil Walton

In Paris with You by Clementine Beauvais

500 Words or Less by Juleah del Rosario

Mary’s Monster: Love, Madness, and How Mary Shelley Created Frankenstein by Lita Judge

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