Dash & Lily's Book of Dares
Author: Rachel Cohn
Author: David Levithan
Book 1 in the Dash and Lily series
Pages: 260
Published: 2010
Age: 12+
“I’ve left some clues for you.
If you want them, turn the page.
If you don’t, put the book back on the shelf, please.”
So begins the latest whirlwind romance from the bestselling authors of Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist. Lily has left a red notebook full of challenges on a favourite bookstore shelf, waiting for just the right guy to come along and accept its dares. But is Dash that right guy? Or are Dash and Lily only destined to trade dares, dreams, and desires in the notebook they pass back and forth at locations across New York? Could their in-person selves possibly connect as well as their notebook versions? Or will they be a comic mismatch of disastrous proportions?
Rachel Cohn and David Levithan have written a love story that will have readers perusing bookstore shelves, looking and longing for a love (and a red notebook) of their own.
Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Young Adult Fiction (2010); The Inky Awards Shortlist for Silver Inky (2011); Michigan Library Association Thumbs Up! Award for Honor book (2011);
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About the Dash and Lily Series
Books in series order
- 1.Dash & Lily's Book of Dares(2010)
- 2.The Twelve Days of Dash & Lily(2016)
- 3.Mind the Gap, Dash & Lily(2020)
Reading age: 12+ years
This series should be read in order.
It's Christmas-time in New York, and world-weary Dash has managed to persuade each of his parents that he is staying with the other, thus sending them both off with their new 'paramours' and leaving him happily shuffling back and forth between their empty apartments.
Meanwhile, Christmas-loving Lily is bereft at the thought of spending Christmas without her full complement of family, and has been consoling herself with cookie-baking and carols-singing. When Lily's brother plants a red moleskin notebook in Dash's favourite store, leaving instructions that lead him not only around the bookstore but eventually out into the Christmas-sozzled city, the scene is set for a back-and-forth series of clues, coincidences and missed rendezvous.
Will sarcastic, intriguing Dash finally meet up with nerdy but loveable Lily? Only time will tell as the two teenagers try to outwit each other for as long as possible in this charming twist on the classic game of cat and mouse.