Simone Breaks All the Rules

Simone Thibodeaux has spent her life following the rules her Haitian immigrant parents set, and her senior year brings the most restrictive ones yet. They have moved her to an all-girls high school, where dating is off limits, and they have decided that if she goes to prom, they will choose her date: a boy from a respectable Haitian immigrant family. Simone has no interest in that arrangement, least of all because her heart is already set on someone else. Determined to take control, she and her fellow late-bloomer friends draft a bucket list of everything they have never dared to do before the year ends. The list covers nights out dancing, skipping class, and, most important, choosing their own prom plans. Once the list starts to take on a life of its own, though, Simone's plans become far more tangled than she anticipated. Along the way she has to decide which family rules are worth defying and which ones are protecting her from a painful mistake.