How long does it take to read 21 Proms?
David Levithan, John Green, Libba Bray, E. Lockhart, Daniel Parker, Rachel Cohn, Ned Vizzini, Holly Black, Melissa De La Cruz, Sarah Mlynowski, Elizabeth Craft, Aimee Friedman, Jodi Lynn Anderson, Leslie Margolis, Brent Hartinger, Lisa Ann Sandell, Will Leitch, Adrienne Maria Vrettos, Billy Merrell, Daniel Ehrenhaft
21 Proms by David Levithan, John Green, Libba Bray, E. Lockhart, Daniel Parker, Rachel Cohn, Ned Vizzini, Holly Black, Melissa De La Cruz, Sarah Mlynowski, Elizabeth Craft, Aimee Friedman, Jodi Lynn Anderson, Leslie Margolis, Brent Hartinger, Lisa Ann Sandell, Will Leitch, Adrienne Maria Vrettos, Billy Merrell, Daniel Ehrenhaft takes about 5 hours 28 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 5 hours 28 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2007. 298 pages, about 81,950 words. Written for children.
11 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 9 hours 6 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 28 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 25 minutes |
The page count is the median across 9 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Sometimes the night of your dreams can be a total nightmare. The prom. It's supposed to be one of the best nights of your life. Or, at least, you're supposed to have a good time. But what if you'd rather be going with your best friend's date than your own? What if a sinister underground society of students has spiked the punch? What if your date turns out to be more of a frog than a prince? Or what if he's (literally) an ape? There are ways you can fight it. You can protest the silliness of the regular prom by hosting a backwards prom - also known as a morp. You can throw a prom for fat girls. You can stay at home to watch old teen movies and get your cute neighbor and his cuter brother to join you. You can dance to your own music. Here, 21 of the funniest, most imaginative writers today create their own kind of prom stories. Some are triumphs. Some are disasters. But each one is a night you'll never forget.
Subjects: American Short stories, Juvenile fiction, Fiction, Interpersonal relations, Proms, High schools
