Eight Nights of Flirting
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4.5 • 2 Ratings
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- $8.99
Publisher Description
A Sydney Taylor Honor Book
A sixteen-year-old girl is on a mission to find the perfect boyfriend this Hanukkah, but love might not go according to plan, in this charming winter romcom from the author of The Summer of Lost Letters.
Shira Barbanel has a plan: this Hanukkah, she’s going to get a boyfriend. And she has the perfect candidate in mind—her great-uncle’s assistant, Isaac. He’s reliable, brilliant, and of course, super hot. The only problem? Shira’s an absolute disaster when it comes to flirting.
Enter Tyler Nelson, Shira’s nemesis-slash-former-crush. As much as she hates to admit it, Tyler is the most charming and popular guy she knows. Which means he’s the perfect person to teach her how to win Isaac over.
When Shira and Tyler get snowed in together at Golden Doors, they strike a deal—flirting lessons for Shira in exchange for career connections for Tyler. But as Shira starts to see the sweet, funny boy beneath Tyler’s playboy exterior, she realizes she actually likes hanging out with him. And that wasn’t part of the plan.
Amidst a whirl of snowy adventures, hot chocolate, and candlelight, Shira must learn to trust her heart to discover if the romance she planned is really the one that will make her happiest.
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Jewish high school junior Shira Barbanel's plans to woo her crush go awry in this spirited Hanukkah rom-com, a standalone companion to Reynolds's The Summer of Lost Letters. Shira and her extended family spend every Hanukkah at her grandfather's sprawling Nantucket estate. This year, she plans to overcome her previous "disastrous attempts at romance" and win over 19-year-old Isaac Lehrer, intern to her media CEO great-uncle. When bad weather strands her overnight with neighbor Tyler Nelson—Shira's former crush, "who would hook up with anyone, except for me"—she asks him for flirting lessons. He agrees, in exchange for three career-oriented meetings with her great-uncle. As the rest of her family arrives and the festivities commence, Tyler conducts the lessons, and Shira's old feelings for him resurface. While Shira's awkward demeanor can sometimes feel stiffly rendered, Reynolds expertly strips away Tyler's generic playboy charm to uncover a love interest worth rooting for. Shira's bighearted Jewish family is also distinctly—and hilariously—drawn, and the group's traditions, which include ordering Chinese food on Christmas, combined with Shira and Tyler's endearing enemies-to-lovers romance, makes for a cheerful holiday jaunt. Characters read as white. Ages 12–up.
