Prom Babies

Name: Prom Babies
Brand: Findaway
Availability: InStock
Author: Kekla Magoon
ISBN: 9798868648571

Author: Kekla Magoon

Narrator: Imani Jade Powers, Yinka Ladeinde, Krysta Gonzales, Victoria Connolly, Andy Garcia, Matthew Bridges

Unabridged: 7 hr 28 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Spotify Audiobooks

Published: 04/30/2024

Categories: Young Adult Fiction, Family, Coming Of Age

Synopsis

A compelling, multi-generational novel from the Coretta Scott King and Printz Honor-winning author of How It Went Down, Light It Up, and The Minus-One Club, Prom Babies chronicles the stories of three teen girls who become pregnant on prom night. Eighteen years later, their three babies, now high school seniors, are headed to prom and facing their own set of complicated issues and questions.
Mina, Penny, and Sheryl have the typical expectations of prom night in 2005: dresses, dancing, and of course some coming of age moments. None of them plans to get pregnant, but when all three do, they band together as they face decisions that have the power to shape the rest of their lives.
In 2024, their three children--Blossom, Amber, and Cole--are high school seniors, gearing up to go to prom and facing some big decisions of their own. As they seek to understand who they are and who they want to be, they grapple with issues that range from consent to virginity, gendered dress codes, and the many patriarchal, heteronormative expectations that still come along with prom.
A generation later, will this prom night change lives too?

About Kekla Magoon

Kekla Magoon is the author of many novels and nonfiction books, including The Rock and the River, How It Went Down, The Season of Styx Malone, and Revolution in Our Time: The Black Panther Partyâ€™s Promise to the People. Kekla received the 2021 Margaret A. Edwards Award for significant and lasting contribution to young adult literature. She has been a National Book Award finalist in addition to receiving an NAACP Image Award, the Boston Globeâ€“Horn Book Award, a Printz Honor, four Coretta Scott King Honors, and two Walter Award Honors. Kekla teaches writing for children and young adults at Vermont College of Fine Arts. Visit her online at keklamagoon.com.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Anniek on May 11, 2024

I would love to see more multigenerational stories in YA, this was so interesting. It offers an engaging exploration of teen pregnancy, sexual assault, abortion and consent through several perspectives, which I think will really make readers think. There are six different POV characters but they wer......more

Goodreads review by Lois on April 16, 2024

This audiobook was made available for me to listen to and review by Kekla Magoon, Spotify Audiobooks and NetGalley. This was surprisingly good. I plan to pick up a physical copy for my grandkids. They're too young now but won't always be. I was engaged from the beginning and very quickly became inves......more

Goodreads review by Markita_Reads on April 08, 2024

Tropes •YA •Teen Pregnancies •Duel Timeline •Multi POVs Trigger Warning ⚠️ •Rape | Sexual Assault ♤ Release April.30 ♤ - 4.5 🌟 I think this book might just be my favorite book | audiobook for this month (April) . - First, the audiobook is phenomenal, the narrators "Chief kiss 💋 * I love it when an author......more

Goodreads review by Shakila (BooksandThemes) on May 03, 2024

4.5⭐️ Thank you, @spotify & @tlcbooktours for my free audiobook copy! This audiobook was so good and I was kind of surprised at how much I did like it. I think this is a great story to read/listen and discuss with teens as they deal with high school issues and pressures. It deals with some real life t......more

Goodreads review by Sophie on December 24, 2024

It was a nice concept, but it felt rushed/compact due to the struggle of fitting six narratives into one 300 page novel. I wanted way more interactions than they were able to fit into the book. Whenever it switched to the “now” narrative, I had such a hard time keeping track of whose kid was whose m......more