Top Ten Uses for an Unworn Prom Dress (15 page)

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

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