The Prom Goer's Interstellar Excursion Summary

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The Prom Goer’s Interstellar Excursion, written by Chris McCoy, was first published in 2015. McCoy is also a screenwriter who has worked with Disney, Paramount, Dreamworks, and Marvel. McCoy also has multiple other books out with one of the most loved being The Prom Goer’s Interstellar Excursion. The Prom Goer’s Interstellar Excursion is about a senior in high school from Gordo, New Mexico named Bennett Bardo. The book is started off with Bennett first writing about his small town and slowly transitioning to the girl he has been in love with since he was a kid, the mysterious Sophie Gilkey. One weekend, Bennett’s parents leave him alone and as he is stargazing he sees Sophie, his neighbor, crying in her driveway. With Bennett’s curiosity getting the best of him, he goes to investigate which then leads him to find …show more content…
Sophie then asks Bennett if his beat up truck could make it to Roswell, a city roughly two hours from Gordo known for its UFO sightings, to fix her motorcycle. Bennett, lying to Sophie, says he knows his truck can make it and off they went. On the trip there, Bennett then finds out Sophie got accepted into the only college he applied to, Princeton, and has a small breakdown but eventually calms himself. While still on the trip, Sophie asks Bennett to be her prom date as she no longer had one because of her breaking up with her boyfriend. Once the pair arrived to Roswell they found a repair shop with a shady employee who said he’d fix the motorcycle and sold them beer for $10 a bottle. As the two wait for the motorcycle to be fixed, they go into a desert and drink. Bennett then points out lights he sees in the air and at first Sophie thought it was