by Tina Ferraro
Crazy? Crazy wonderful.
These past months had been among the hardest I'd known. How could I have gotten through some of those moments without The Dress? To the naked eye, it was just material and thread. But to me, it had become a coping mechanism—even a friend.
Tonight was my dream come true—but I hadn't thought about what I'd do with my pink dream tomorrow. I just knew the bag was coming off the back of my door. That it was time to move on.
“Call me before you go,” I said impulsively. “Why? You want to come?” “Yeah. I think I do. Me and my dress.” Because suddenly, there was no doubt that I'd found the final and totally right use for my dress.
Donate it to a dress recycling charity so your dress can make some other girl as deliriously happy as it has made you.
Which, you know? Would be perfect. Just perfect.
AUTHOR'S NOTE
Do you have a “kindly worn” prom dress in your room?
Why not do as Nicolette and countless other girls have done and pass it on to a charitable dress recycling program?
Open up your heart and donate the dress that stole yours. Help another girl who might otherwise have to miss her homecoming, Spring Fling, or prom look and feel like a million dollars, too.
Come on … you can do it!
Call local used-clothing stores and ask about nearby prom dress recycling programs. Or type the words “prom dress” + “recycle” + the name of your closest city into an Internet search engine.
Or better yet, do as some heroic teens have done in their communities and start your own prom dress charity! Be a leader. Keep the good times going, starting with your prom dress.
spent much of her high school days people-watching, which didn't do much for her grades but later proved one of her better mistakes. A longtime resident of Southern California, she lives with her husband and their three kids. She loves to travel and can ask where the bathroom is in many languages. This is Tina's first novel for young readers. Visit her at www.tinaferraro.com.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Ferraro, Tina.
Top ten uses for an unworn prom dress/Tina Ferraro.—1st ed.
p. cm.
Summary: Having been stood up for prom the previous year, high school junior
Nicolette works on a top ten list of things to do with her unworn dress while also
trying to help her divorced parents and take care of her relationships
with her best friend and with potential boyfriends.
eISBN: 978-0-307-49203-6
[1. Interpersonal relations—Fiction. 2. Family problems—Fiction.
3. Proms—Fiction. 4. High schools—Fiction. 5. Schools—Fiction.]
I. Title.
PZ7.F365Top 2007
[Fic]—dc22
2006004991
v3.0
Table of Contents
Cover
Title Page
Acknowledgments
Dedication
Chapter 1 - Prom Goddess
Chapter 2 - Just Say Yes
Chapter 3 - Mirror, Mirror
Chapter 4 - Top Ten Uses for an Unworn Prom Dress
Chapter 5 - Checking Out the Sights
Chapter 6 - Who's Your Daddy?
Chapter 7 - Top Ten Uses for an Unworn Prom Dress
Chapter 8 - Live a Little
Chapter 9 - If You Give a Girl a Cookie
Chapter 10 - Top Ten Uses for an Unworn Prom Dress
Chapter 11 - All the Blues That's Fit to Print
Chapter 12 - Hairstyles of the Rich and Popular
Chapter 13 - Top Ten Uses for an Unworn Prom Dress
Chapter 14 - In UR Face
Chapter 15 - The Ghost of Prom Past
Chapter 16 - Top Ten Uses for an Unworn Prom Dress
Chapter 17 - Frenemies
Chapter 18 - Gossip Boys
Chapter 19 - Top Ten Uses for an Unworn Prom Dress
Chapter 20 - Top Ten Uses for an Unworn Prom Dress
Chapter 21 - Don't Even Go There
Chapter 22 - Top Ten Uses for an Unworn Prom Dress
Chapter 23 - Going Nowhere Fast
Chapter 24 - Things That Go Bump in the Night
Chapter 25 - Top Ten Uses for an Unworn Prom Dress
Chapter 26 - Monkey in the Middle
Chapter 27 - Dressed for Success
Chapter 28 - Top Ten Uses for a Worn Prom Dress
Author's Note
About The Author
Copyright
