24 GIRLS IN 7 DAYS
Alex Bradley, . . Dutton, $15.99 (256pp) ISBN 978-0-525-47369-5
This comical debut novel introduces high school senior Jack Grammar, who is so unlucky in love that his two best friends go behind his back to design a personal ad for him ("Jack Grammar is looking for a prom date. Could it be you?"). Natalie and Percy tell their pal that there have been a slew of responses, and they design a plan: They will select 24 girls in the seven days before prom, one of whom he will choose for a date. But as he goes on the dates, he connects with many of the girls, and he finds himself falling for Natalie, and a girl he met online whose screen name is FancyPants. Jack is both romantic and self-deprecating ("If this prom slipped by without conjuring up some kind of magic—some romantic miracle—I was pretty sure that it would only be a sign of things to come or, more precisely, a sign of
Reviewed on: 02/14/2005
Genre: Children's
Mass Market Paperbound - 272 pages - 978-0-14-240543-7
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