My pre-publication "can't-wait-to-read" selection is:
Dash & Lily's Book of Dares by Rachel Cohn, David Levithan Published: October 26th 2010
From Amazon:
Dash and Lily, 16, find themselves on their own in Manhattan at Christmas. Dash is alone by choice–he's told each of his divorced parents that he's spending the holiday with the other, leaving them both to take vacations out of town. Lily's parents are taking the honeymoon they couldn't afford when they got married. They think that Lily is in the capable hands of her older brother, but he's less interested in her than in his new boyfriend, and then he gets sick and spends most of the holiday in bed. He does, however, start in motion the activity that is central to the story. It involves a red Moleskine notebook with a list of literary clues that Lily leaves in the stacks at the Strand bookstore. Bookish and erudite Dash finds it and is intrigued enough to follow Lily's lead and leave some clues of his own. The dares in the book's title refer to innocent things such as going to various crowded places like Macy's and FAO Schwartz to pick up messages. As the dares go on, the teens reveal more and more about themselves in the pages of the notebook, until they finally meet under the worst possible circumstances.
good pick! i can't wait for this one either. it just sounds like so so much fun.
ReplyDeletewe have a different cover in Australia - it's not out until December though.
I love it when Levithan and Cohn pair up, their books are filled with awesomeness. Thankfully we only have to wait a week for this one!
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