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The Twelve Days of Dash & Lily
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The Twelve Days of Dash & Lily

Dash and Lily Series

Author: Rachel Cohn

Author: David Levithan

Book 2 in the Dash and Lily series

Pages: 224

Published: 2016

Age: 12+

Dash and Lily have now been going out for nearly a year – and it's been a really hard year. Lily's beloved grandfather had a heart attack and fell down some stairs. He survived, but his recovery has been slow. Lily insists that everything's fine. But Dash knows that her spirit is sagging. Her enthusiasm has been exhausted. And even with Christmastime, her favourite time, approaching, she doesn't really feel... anything.

Action must be taken. There are twelve days until Christmas. Twelve days for friends and family to take Manhattan by storm to help Lily recapture the magic of New York City in December. Twelve days to find Lily's cheer, and help her fall in love with life again. Twelve days left for Dash and Lily...?

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About the Dash and Lily Series

Books in series order

  1. 1.Dash & Lily's Book of Dares(2010)
  2. 2.The Twelve Days of Dash & Lily(2016)
  3. 3.Mind the Gap, Dash & Lily(2020)

Reading age: 12+ years

This series should be read in order.

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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.