Instructions for dancing
(Book)

Evie is disillusioned about love ever since her dad left her mum for another woman - she's even throwing out her beloved romance novel collection.

When she's given a copy of a book called Instructions for Dancing, and follows a note inside to a dilapidated dance studio, she discovers she has a strange and unwelcome gift. When a couple kisses in front of her, she can see their whole relationship play out - from the moment they first catch each other's eye to the last bitter moments of their break-up.

For Evie, it confirms everything she thinks she knows about love - that it doesn't last.

But at the dance studio she meets X - tall, dreadlocked, fascinating - and they start to learn to dance, together. Can X help break the spell that Evie is under? Can he change Evie's mind about love?

Ages 12 and up.,Delacorte Press.

HL650L,Lexile

Decoding demand: 96 (very high),Semantic demand: 100 (very high),Syntactic demand: 88 (very high),Structure demand: 88 (very high),Lexile

HL640L,Lexile