Title: The Date to Save
Author: Stephanie Kate Strohm
Publication Date: September 12th, 2017
Pages: 288 pages
Genre: ya contemporary
Format: Hardcover
Source: Library
Blurb:
The word is out…
BROOKS MANDEVILLE, quarterback: Friday is the homecoming game and dance. It is a very big deal.
NATALIE WAGNER, marching band clarinet: Our band’s halftime show performances are legendary, even if our football team isn’t.
CINTHIA ALVAREZ, Academic Battle team member: Our Academic Battle team has won five years in a row. This Friday, it’ll be six.
TANNER ERICKSEN, sophomore class candidate for vice president: Holly has to win the election for class president this Friday!
HOLLY CARPENTER, cheerleader, Academic Battle team member, class president candidate: Friday? Everything is on Friday? How can I be in three places at once?
COLIN VON KOHORN, editor-in-chief of the Prepster: This kind of scheduling incompetence could only have come straight from the top.
ANGELICA HUTCHERSON, reporter-at-large: I talked to everyone and my article is going to crack this story wide open…
This is what happens on the wildest day in the history of high school!
Review:
This was a mental break for me in terms of reading but I still enjoyed every minute of it. I’ve been reading a lot of books with serious tones to them and wanted something a little more fun and upbeat and The Date to Save easily filled that.
Written in the form of an oral history, the book starts off a little bit hard to follow. Once you’ve gotten accustomed to that it’s a great read that’s easy to follow. It’s broken up into different situations and everything you read is what has been recorded by Angelica Hutcherson. She even includes her own personal notes under some of the bits.
I’m sure that everyone has seen High School Musical and remembers that crazy day where the kids made the schedule work to their advantage so that everyone could be in every place at once. Well, that’s the same thing that happens here. Over the course of the book you follow the characters as they all go through the week leading up to Homecoming. And by some fluke in the scheduling not only does the Student Government elections fall on the same day as Homecoming, so do the Fall Play and the Academic Battles. It’s a travesty that has the whole student body in a frenzy.
There’s romance, sibling drama, and a surprisingly rounded cast of characters. Again, it was a good book but it wasn’t spectacular. However, it was a much wanted mental break and I thoroughly enjoyed it. It’s a great book for anyone who wants something lighthearted and fun.
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