In their third collaboration, Cohn and Levithan present another clever New York romance. Levithan writes the chapters narrated by Dash, a âÂÂbookishâ 16-year-old spending Christmas break alone. He finds a red moleskin notebook amid the shelves of the Strand bookstore. âÂÂAre you going to be playing for the pure thrill of unreluctant desire.â asks CohnâÂÂs Lily in the first coded message of the notebook, with an invitation to respond. Lily is aglow with the yuletide and devastated that her parents are spending the holidays in Fiji. Armed with anonymity, Dash and Lily exchange the notebook in various locations around the Big Apple, filling it with their greatest hopes and deepest fears, and ultimately find themselves falling in love. Not surprisingly, the young pairâÂÂs perceptions of each other donâÂÂt entirely reflect reality; DashâÂÂs ex asks if he is in love with the girl writing in the book or the girl he is picturing in his head. The spirit of the season amplifies Dash and LilyâÂÂs loneliness and heightens the connexion between them, in another surefire hit from the creators of Nick and NorahâÂÂs Infinite Playlist (2006). Grades 9-12. --Courtney Jones --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
In their third collaboration, Cohn and Levithan present another clever New York romance. Levithan writes the chapters narrated by Dash, a âÂÂbookishâ 16-year-old spending Christmas break alone. He finds a red moleskin notebook amid the shelves of the Strand bookstore. âÂÂAre you going to be playing for the pure thrill of unreluctant desire.â asks CohnâÂÂs Lily in the first coded message of the notebook, with an invitation to respond. Lily is aglow with the yuletide and devastated that her parents are spending the holidays in Fiji. Armed with anonymity, Dash and Lily exchange the notebook in various locations around the Big Apple, filling it with their greatest hopes and deepest fears, and ultimately find themselves falling in love. Not surprisingly, the young pairâÂÂs perceptions of each other donâÂÂt entirely reflect reality; DashâÂÂs ex asks if he is in love with the girl writing in the book or the girl he is picturing in his head. The spirit of the season amplifies Dash and LilyâÂÂs loneliness and heightens the connexion between them, in another surefire hit from the creators of Nick and NorahâÂÂs Infinite Playlist (2006). Grades 9-12. --Courtney Jones --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
Rachel Cohn & David Levithan have written three books together.
Their first, Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist, was made into a
movie starring Michael Cera and Kat Dennings, directed by Peter
Sollett. Their second, Naomi and Ely’s No Kiss List, was named a
New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age. For their third
book, Dash & Lily’s Book of Dares, David wrote Dash’s chapters and
Rachel wrote Lily’s. Although they did not pass the chapters back
and forth in a red Moleskine notebook, they did email them to each
other without planning anything out beforehand. That’s the way they
work.
Rachel’s previous books include Gingerbread, Shrimp, Cupcake, You
Know Where to Find Me, and Very LeFreak. David’s previous books
include Boy Meets Boy, The Realm of Possibility, Are We There Yet?,
Wide Awake, Love Is the Higher Law, and How They Met, and Other
Stories.
For more information about Rachel and David, you can find them at
RachelCohn.com and DavidLevithan.com, respectively. You may also
catch them in the aisles at the Strand.
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