Prom and Prejudice by Elizabeth Eulberg. Scholastic, 2011. 231pgs.Think Pride and Prejudice at an elitist girls school named Longbourn Academy. What's the most important thing in their lives? Not getting married, but going to the prom.
Lizzie is a scholarship student who befriends her roommate Jane. Jane is excited because Charles Bingley is returning after a semester abroad. At a mixer of students from Longbourn and also Pemberley Academy, Lizzie meets Charles and his friend, Will Darcy. Mix in the usual Darcy pride, some prejudice of a poor and outcast Lizzie and well, it's pretty much the same P&P we all know and love, but in modern teen time. Mrs. Gardiner is Lizzie's piano teacher. Charlotte is another scholarship student and Lizzie's only other friend. Wick is a student who Darcy doesn't get along with and tempts Lizzie with lies about Darcy.
If a teen picks this up and has never read the original, I doubt that they'd get all of the name similarities or the plot resemblance. But alll in all, a very cute version of Pride and Prejudice for the teenage crowd.
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