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This article relates to Lucky
Lucky's cover features a lime-green dream dress that
Phoebe plans to wear to her over-the-top 8th grade graduation party.
That beautiful dress, the way it makes Phoebe feel when she tries it on, and the
way it makes her feel when she realizes that her parents can no longer afford
to buy it for her, embodies Phoebe's expectations and disappointments throughout
the novel.
Many organizations work to make sure that every girl, no matter
her economic situation, can feel beautiful in her own dream dress at the prom,
dance or graduation party. These groups collect and distribute gently worn,
clean and stylish prom, bridesmaid, and party dresses. Here's a list of some of
these groups in the U.S. and Canada:
Filed under Cultural Curiosities
This "beyond the book article" relates to Lucky. It originally ran in August 2008 and has been updated for the April 2009 paperback edition. Go to magazine.
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