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Instructions for Dancing

by Nicola Yoon
Bahni Turpin
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AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
"A charming, wholehearted love story that's sure to make readers swoon."—Entertainment Weekly
"Nicola Yoon writes from the heart in this beautiful love story."—Good Morning America
“It’s like an emotional gut punch—so beautiful and also heart-wrenching."—US Weekly
In this romantic page-turner from the author of Everything, Everything and The Sun is Also a Star, Evie has the power to see other people’s romantic fates—what will happen when she finally sees her own?

Evie Thomas doesn't believe in love anymore. Especially after the strangest thing occurs one otherwise ordinary afternoon: She witnesses a couple kiss and is overcome with a vision of how their romance began . . . and how it will end. After all, even the greatest love stories end with a broken heart, eventually.
As Evie tries to understand why this is happening, she finds herself at La Brea Dance Studio, learning to waltz, fox-trot, and tango with a boy named X. X is everything that Evie is not: adventurous, passionate, daring. His philosophy is to say yes to everything—including entering a ballroom dance competition with a girl he's only just met.
Falling for X is definitely not what Evie had in mind. If her visions of heartbreak have taught her anything, it's that no one escapes love unscathed. But as she and X dance around and toward each other, Evie is forced to question all she thought she knew about life and love. In the end, is love worth the risk?

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  • Release date

    June 1, 2021

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781984833129
      • File size: 225026 KB
      • Duration: 07:48:48

  • Languages

    • English

  • Levels

    • Lexile® Measure: 640
    • Text Difficulty: 2-3

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      Starred review from April 19, 2021
      After her parents’ divorce, romance enthusiast Evie Thomas, 17, swears off love. Donating the last of her romance book collection in the process, she comes across a neighborhood library box and a mysterious woman who encourages her to take a book for herself. Evie doesn’t think much of the volume, Instruc-tions for Dancing, but realizes that something strange is occurring when she sees her sister, Danica, kissing her boyfriend, and has a vision of both how they got together and how they’ll break up. After Evie sees the romantic fates of other kissing couples, her best friend urges her to visit the “please return to” address in the book—the La Brea Dance studio. There, Evie is sucked in by the magnetic owners, fiery instructor Fifi and the owners’ grandson, X, and is persuaded to join the LA Danceball competition to help the studio gain clients. With X as her partner, she learns the steps to leading with her heart. With deadpan humor, realistically wrought relationships among the Black principal cast, and a well-executed fantastical element, Yoon (Everything, Everything) delivers a story of love’s unpredictability and the importance of perspective that unfolds with ease and heart. Ages 12–up. Agents: Sara Shandler and Joelle Hobeika, Alloy Entertainment.

    • AudioFile Magazine
      With a heartfelt performance, Bahni Turpin puts listeners in the head of Evie, an L.A. high school senior who doesn't believe in happily ever after anymore--not after she caught her father cheating and her parents got divorced. When she starts seeing visions of how and when couples' relationships will end, Evie's search for answers leads her to a dance studio where she meets the charming and handsome X. Turpin's characterizations help to build Evie's world. Evie's mother's Jamaican accent waxes and wanes, depending on her mood; ballroom dance teacher Fifi's strong Eastern European accent and no-nonsense delivery match her force-of-nature temperament. Evie learns truths about dancing, friendship, family, and love in this lovely and bittersweet coming-of-age novel. J.M.D. © AudioFile 2021, Portland, Maine

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Languages

  • English

Levels

  • Lexile® Measure:640
  • Text Difficulty:2-3

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