24 Girls in 7 Days
(Sprache: Englisch)
There are few things sadder than Jack Grammar s love life. So when his friends take it upon themselves to get him a date to the prom by placing an intensely humiliating ad in the school paper, they think they are doing him a favor. Jack doesn t agree. But...
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There are few things sadder than Jack Grammar s love life. So when his friends take it upon themselves to get him a date to the prom by placing an intensely humiliating ad in the school paper, they think they are doing him a favor. Jack doesn t agree. But then the most amazing thing happens: responses to the ad are overwhelming. So overwhelming, in fact, that Jack must narrow the list down. A lot. Not an easy task. Turns out, the girls at City High are quite competitive. From drive-by flashings to breaking and entering to cell phone stalkers, these potential prom dates will stop at nothing to snag the suddenly popular Jack. How will he ever choose just one?
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I FEEL, TO BE HONEST, like a man in a space suit. In space. Because despite the fact that I m in the middle of a stupid overcrowded narrow hallway surrounded by masses of my excessively chatty peers freshly released from fifth period, I can hear nothing but my own breath and I feel very separate and very far from my own planet and it seems like there s no gravity. I might float away. There also seem to be stars twinkling at the edges of my vision.Where the heck am I headed? Who sent me on this insane quest? And to top it off, my hands are numb. My hands are very numb, but I keep moving down the hall, trudging onward, and now I can see the doorway from which Pamela Brown will appear at any moment. Oh, for the love of all that s good and holy. Oh, for the love of frick. My comrades sent me on this mission moments ago with semihelpful encouragement. Luke, Percy said, gripping my shoulders too tightly and using his best Darth Vader voice, this is your destiny.
I m not Luke, I said.
Don t quibble, my son, he said, still in character.
Besides, I added, Luke didn t get the girl. And the girl was his sister anyway. Natalie nodded. He s got a point, she said.
Er . . . uh . . . Percy-Darth said. Natalie winked at me. We believe in you, Jack, she said.
But I don t . . . I protested. I m not up for this. I just don t think it s me. It s not something I can do. It s not something I ve ever done. It s not something I ever will do. I m not good at it. Honestly.
She clasped my shoulders and smiled, looking me right in the eyes, and instead of responding to my last-minute blabbering the kind of excuses I d been spewing all week, the kind of excuses she had talked me through ten times already she simply turned me in the right direction and gave me a little push. Thus I was shot into outer space. I was off.My legs and feet seem to be working well, even without my direct involvement. Now I m passing under the
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banner advertising the prom, the thing itself, the night of nights, my date with fate. XANADU, the banner reads. Or, as we ve been calling it: Xanadon t, Xanadope, Xanaduped, and, the twin favorites, Xanadoohickey and Xanathingamadoo.
Most of the students have already left Pamela s classroom, but where is she? I have a sudden vision of her hiding just inside the doorway, back flat against the wall, waiting for me to pass so she can escape, but the reality of the situation is that Pamela wouldn t hide from me because she doesn t know who I am. Unless, of course, she has a remarkably good memory and recalls the one time we talked last year:
Scene lunchroom
Time 12:32 P.M.
Setup One Jack Grammar is waiting in line for the onlyCoke machine in the entire flipping school when he realizes a certain Pamela Brown is standing behind him. Stunned into silence by the fact of her proximity, he s surprised by a tap on the shoulder.
PAMELA: Do you know what time it is?
Now, let s hit the pause button, shall we, and consider our hero s mind. John Alexander Grammar. Aka Jack. Aka the Jackster. Aka me. The question being posed to him is simple: Does he know the time? Well, does he? Yes. Therefore this should be simple, right? He is, after all, Jack Grammar, and he does, after all, have more AP credits than is possible without special permission from Dean of Students Canton Schramm. He also has a watch. He should, in all honesty, be able to answer the question before him with not only excellent accuracy, but also humor, ease, wit, and boyish charm.
JACK (looks at watch): 12:32 . . . About. I think?
Most of the students have already left Pamela s classroom, but where is she? I have a sudden vision of her hiding just inside the doorway, back flat against the wall, waiting for me to pass so she can escape, but the reality of the situation is that Pamela wouldn t hide from me because she doesn t know who I am. Unless, of course, she has a remarkably good memory and recalls the one time we talked last year:
Scene lunchroom
Time 12:32 P.M.
Setup One Jack Grammar is waiting in line for the onlyCoke machine in the entire flipping school when he realizes a certain Pamela Brown is standing behind him. Stunned into silence by the fact of her proximity, he s surprised by a tap on the shoulder.
PAMELA: Do you know what time it is?
Now, let s hit the pause button, shall we, and consider our hero s mind. John Alexander Grammar. Aka Jack. Aka the Jackster. Aka me. The question being posed to him is simple: Does he know the time? Well, does he? Yes. Therefore this should be simple, right? He is, after all, Jack Grammar, and he does, after all, have more AP credits than is possible without special permission from Dean of Students Canton Schramm. He also has a watch. He should, in all honesty, be able to answer the question before him with not only excellent accuracy, but also humor, ease, wit, and boyish charm.
JACK (looks at watch): 12:32 . . . About. I think?
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Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Alex Bradley
- Altersempfehlung: Ab 12 Jahre
- 2006, 272 Seiten, Maße: 17,755 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Penguin US
- ISBN-10: 0142405434
- ISBN-13: 9780142405437
- Erscheinungsdatum: 18.07.2011
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
"Basically, this is the perfect literary valentine." Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, starred review
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