You Should See Me in a Crown

Liz doesn't fit in her small-town midwestern school, there's no doubt about it. She is black, queer, poor, and at the top of her class of a ultra-rich, elite high school. When her plan to get a scholarship for college of her dreams doesn't work out, she bravely decides to run for prom queen to win the $10,000 scholarship it comes with. She and her friends hatch a strategy (complete with data analytics) to get her to the top. Complete with a homophobic mean girl, best friends who betray you, old friends reunited, and first love—this is a great story for teens. The writing has that corny, cringey teen movie vibe, but, let's be honest, that's what we want from these kind of books.