The Twelve Days of Dash and Lily. Rachel Cohn

      

      First published in the United States in 2016

       by Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books,

       a division of Penguin Random House LLC, 1745 Broadway, New York,

       New York 10019, USA

       First published in Great Britain in 2016 by Electric Monkey,

       part of Egmont Books

      An imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 1 London Bridge Street London SE1 9GF

      This edition published in 2020 by Electric Monkey

      Text copyright © 2016 by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan

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      ISBN 978 0 7555 0006 2

      Ebook ISBN 978 1 7803 1753 3

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       To E.L. Konigsburg

       (for sending us on our first big fictional adventure in NYC)

      1  1 DASH

      2  2 LILY

      3  3 DASH

      4  4 LILY

      5  5 DASH

      6  6 LILY

      7  7 DASH

      8  8 LILY

      9  9 DASH

      10  10 LILY

      11  11 DASH

      12  12 LILY

      13  13 DASH

      14  14 LILY

      15  Acknowledgements

      Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

       Copyright

       Dedication

1 DASH

2 LILY

       3 DASH

       4 LILY

       5 DASH

       6 LILY

       7 DASH

       8 LILY

       9 DASH

       10 LILY

       11 DASH

       12 LILY

       13 DASH

       14 LILY

       Acknowledgements

       Saturday, December 13th

      I had been dating Lily for almost a year, and no matter what I did, I couldn’t get her brother to like me, trust me, or think I was remotely good enough for his sister. So it was a shock when he told me he wanted to meet for lunch, just the two of us.

      Are you sure you have the right number? I texted back to him.

      Don’t be a dick. Just show up, he replied.

      The scary thing