Saturday Night
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Publisher Description
Will tonight be the night they each get their heart’s desire? Five high school juniors get ready for the dance they hope will change their lives forever
It’s Saturday night—the evening of the Autumn Leaves Dance.
Beth Rose is going solo in the dress she hopes will transform her from average student whom no one notices into someone special.
Anne is the girl Beth Rose wishes she could be: beautiful and smart, with impeccable grades and the perfect boyfriend. But would everyone think Anne was so flawless if they knew her secret?
Emily asked a boy she just met to take her to the dance—and he accepted. Now, with fifteen minutes to go, Emily hopes he shows up.
The whole dance was Kip’s idea, and she doesn’t even have a date.
Molly hasn’t got a single female friend, but all the boys love her. She has a date for the dance, but has already set her sights on another guy—somebody else’s boyfriend.
For these Westerly High juniors, their first formal dance will hold heartbreak, danger, and the thrilling promise of love.
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On the night of the Autumn Leaves Dance, five girls have different hopes or worries: Beth Rose wants, just once, to be beautiful; Anne, gorgeous and popular, is afraid her boyfriend will leave her when he finds out she's pregnant; Emily, who's never had a boy like her but has invited one to the dance, wants to be loved; Molly, a ravishing flirt who snares a Harvard man, decides to steal the spotlight; Kip, who planned the entire dance, just wants to attend, even if it means going with dull Roddy. A thunderstorm complicates mattersEmily and her date save the victim of a car accident and don't get to the dance until much later; Anne loses her boyfriend but finds lovewhen he comes back to her; schemer Molly has an awful night with her drunk college man; Beth Rose and Kip both get a glimpse of their own happy endings, or beginnings, with romance. Cooney weaves all these plots in, out and around one another with a skilled hand. Not relying on stereotype, she sharply delineates each character, giving all of them enough pain and anguish to make their situations believable, with just enough froth and fun. (12-up)
