You Should See Me In A Crown
Author: Leah Johnson
Young Adult
A thoroughly enjoyable, light YA LGBTQ+ rom-com celebrating the beauty of individuality.
Competing to become prom queen should be the furthest thing from Liz’s plan to leave her small, rich, prom obsessed midwestern town that she has always felt she was too black, too poor and too awkward to be a comfortable part of. Her plan is to leave Campbell, Indiana and attend an elite college (her late mother’s alma mater), play in their world-famous orchestra and become a doctor. All the pieces of the plan are there until the music scholarship she was counting on falls through.
Now what? Oh right, her school in this prom obsessed (“like football in Texas”) town offers a scholarship for prom king and queen. Liz is willing to do anything for the success of her plan including leaving her comfort zone to put herself in the spotlight and enter the world of dresses, makeup and the school’s paparazzi and compete to become prom queen.
Enter Mack, the new girl in school. Mack is smart, funny and also an outsider competing for prom queen. What will happen when Liz realizes she is attracted to Mack? Will falling for Mack destroy or help Liz’s dreams come true?
Contributed by: Annmarie O'Neill
Annmarie is recently retired after a wonderful career as a Library Teacher in the Weymouth Public Schools and now participating fully in retirement by continuing as a reading tutor for the Literacy Volunteers of MA at the Thomas Crane Library in Quincy (they can always use new tutors), supervising graduate students in the Simmons University Library Teacher program, traveling, exploring creativity (quilting, writing, drawing, crochet) and maintaining a Little Free Library at her house.