Fat Hoochie Prom Queen

"Large, loud Margarita truly hates student body president Bridget Benson, a stuck-up television star whom Madge was friends with when both were child actresses; so when Bridget challenges her to a contest to win prom queen, Madge tells her to 'get ready to lose by a landslide.' There's plenty of drinking and swearing, but some memorable moments, too, as the competition heats up: Bridget and Margarita face off in a strange event at a party thrown by a character called Redneck Randy — they water-ski behind a truck, trying to jump gracefully into a lake at the ramp's end. Medina sets the story at the same high school as his first novel, The Straight Road to Kylie, and Margarita even visits that book's protagonist at college, a trip which ends with her passed out drunk on a football field, next to a box of Krispy Kremes ('The first thing I tasted when I came to was glaze on my lips'). The last-minute revelations about Bridget, and the inevitable reconciliation, might be hard to swallow, but readers will get a kick out of Margarita and appreciate her growing honesty with herself. Ages 14 — up. Happy families are not all alike, as previously met characters continue to prove." Publishers Weekly (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.)

Margarita Madge Diaz loves herself and is adored by almost everyone else--except skinny witch Bridget Benson. These two girls have an ugly history, so they decide there's only one way to end their rivalry: Be named prom queen or back off. For good.

Nico Medina is the author of The Straight Road to Kylie, Fat Hoochie Prom Queen, and Go Ahead, Ask Me. He works at a publishing house in New York City.

1: The Pink Bermuda Triangle
2: High-Stakes Drama, for the Bargain Price of Fifty Dollars
3: The Jungles of Central Florida
4: Streaking for the Cause
5: How Does One Recover from a Wooden Animal Party?
6: Sit Back, Breathe, BeDazzle
7: Bridget Benson Caters to Your Every Need!
8: Showdown at Redneck Randy's
9: Visine Up, Baby!
10: Pearls of Wisdom
11: In Liquid Cocaine Veritas
12: Everything Looks Better (or at Least More Interesting)...in the Morning
13: A Soft Spot for Bearded Ladies
14: New Course of Action
15: Stakeout Sisters
16: Some Serious Scary-Movie Stuff
17: Jade + Jed 4Ever!
A Brief Lucas Interlude--
18: Deep Thoughts
19: How It All Shook Out
Acknowledgments
About the Author