Simone Breaks All the Rules by Debbie Rigaud

Simone Breaks All the Rules by Debbie Rigaud

Simone Thibodeaux is about to switch things up.

Check her life: It's sealed in a boy-proof container. Her Haitian immigrant parents send Simone to an all-girls high school and enforce strict no-dating rules. As for prom? Simone is allowed to go on one condition: Her parents will select her date (a boy from a nice, Haitian immigrant family, obviously).

Simone is desperate to avoid the setup -- especially since she has a serious crush on another boy. It's time to take action. Simone and her fellow late-bloomer friends make a senior year bucket list of all the wild things they haven't done yet. Like: going out dancing, skipping class (what), and oh yeah -- deciding their own prom destinies.

But as the list takes on a life of its own, things get much messier than Simone expected. Can she figure out which rules are worth breaking and which might save her from heartbreak?

Debbie Rigaud is the author of Really Madly Royally and writer of Alyssa Milano's Hope series. She began her career as a writer for entertainment and adolescent magazines after growing up in East Orange, New Jersey. She now resides in Columbus, Ohio, with her husband and children. Debbierigaud.com has further information.