Last Dance Author:Caroline B. Cooney The last dance of the year provides only a temporary lull in the battle of the sexes. "As always, the girls seemed to be at one event, and the boys seemed to be at another one altogether.'" — The main theme is the vast distance between girls and boys; this gap is patched over at the end with a haze of romance. But in the meantime, t... more »here's a raging fire, a nasty troublemaker in a tight purple dress, and problems far heavier than usual, like unwed motherhood and ugly divorces.« less