I enjoyed the way Tiffany D Jackson took the horror story of Carrie and gave it a total racist spin was very relevant to our world now. The fact that the story was all based around high school students and their proms which were held separately by race had me in a complete uproar. This was a assbackwards town that had me livid all throughout. But it was all about the students and how the school and community decided to treat not only this girl, but people from all marginalized communities including Blacks and members of the LGBTQ community. The way she was alway seen as "Mad Mad Maddy", the constant bullying at school, the being sheltered and abused at home. She is teased mercilessly for her hair and for lying about who she is. When she gets stuck in the rain, her true roots show, causing an uproar in her not so accepting small town and high school. But he does so much more than shelter her. She's always been a girl that has been sheltered from life around her by her father that is a white man. Maddy is a biracial teenager that has been "passing" as a white girl.
This was the perfect book for the season and for fans of Stephen King's Carrie with a twist. And what they don't know is that Maddy still has another secret. The popular white class president convinces her Black superstar quarterback boyfriend to ask Maddy to be his date, leaving Maddy wondering if it's possible to have a normal life.īut some of her classmates aren't done with her just yet. She has been passing for white her entire life at the behest of her fanatical white father, Thomas Washington.Īfter a viral bullying video pulls back the curtain on Springville High's racist roots, student leaders come up with a plan to change their image: host the school's first integrated prom as a show of unity. Until the morning a surprise rainstorm reveals her most closely kept secret: Maddy is biracial. And she's dealt with it because she has more pressing problems to manage. Maddy did it.Īn outcast at her small-town Georgia high school, Madison Washington has always been a teasing target for bullies. When Springville residents-at least the ones still alive-are questioned about what happened on prom night, they all have the same explanation.
A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection! Jackson ramps up the horror and tackles America’s history and legacy of racism in this suspenseful YA novel following a biracial teenager as her Georgia high school hosts its first integrated prom. New York Times bestselling author Tiffany D.
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