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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
The moral rights of the authors have been asserted
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)
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Contents
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