Your Plantation Prom Is Not Okay (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780316449939)

This sharp-witted, timely novel explores cancel culture, anger, and grief, and challenges the romanticization of America's racist past with humor and heart--for readers of Dear Martin by Nic Stone and Grown by Tiffany D. Jackson.

Harriet Douglass lives with her historian father on an old plantation in Louisiana, which they've transformed into one of the South's few enslaved people's museums. Together, while grieving the recent loss of Harriet's mother, they run tours that help keep the memory of the past alive.

Harriet's world is turned upside down by the arrival of mother and daughter Claudia and Layla Hartwell--who plan to turn the property next door into a wedding venue, and host the offensively antebellum-themed wedding of two Hollywood stars.

Harriet's fully prepared to hate Layla Hartwell, but it seems that Layla might not be so bad after all--unlike many people, this California influencer is actually interested in Harriet's point of view. Harriet's sure she can change the hearts of Layla and her mother, but she underestimates the scale of the challenge...and when her school announces that prom will be held on the plantation, Harriet's just about had it with this whole racist timeline! Overwhelmed by grief and anger, it's fair to say she snaps.

Can Harriet use the power of social media to cancel the celebrity wedding and the plantation prom? Will she accept that she's falling in love with her childhood best friend, who's unexpectedly returned after years away? Can she deal with the frustrating reality that Americans seem to live in two completely different countries? And through it all, can she and Layla build a bridge between them?


Author: Kelly McWilliams
ISBN-10: 0316449938
ISBN-13: 9780316449939
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Language: English
Published: 05/02/2023
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.94lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.85w x 1.15d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 03/15/2023
Publishers Weekly 03/20/2023
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 05/01/2023 - Book Of Special Distinction
Horn Book Magazine 07/01/2023 pg. 118
School Library Journal 08/01/2023 pg. 94
Booklist 09/08/2023
Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2023 - Superior,Well Above Average