24 Girls in 7 Days

24 Girls in 7 Days is hilarious, sweet, honest, and one of the better books I have found in my school library. Jack Grammar is such an interesting character because he seems vaguely caught by a reader. He reminds me of my husband: just when one thinks she has him figured out, he is different. It is his simplicity that makes him perfectly imperfectly perfect.

Jack is a bit on the outside of social life. He spends his time with his two best friends, Natalie and Percy. Natalie is classy chic, and Percy is a prankster. They have significant others, while Jack does not. Yet, he finds Pamela Brown to be the most beautiful personification of love. His botched attempt to ask her to prom prompts his friends to create a dating profile for him, to show more get him a date for prom. The school paper gets in on the fun, and WHAMMO! A gazillion women want to date the formerly nonexistent Jack Grammar.

His “friends” Nat and Percy, slim the issue by picking 24 girls, all of which he must take on a date before prom, to just see if he clicks. Jack finds out some very interesting things during his dating romp. For example, even bad publicity is good for getting dates; it is bad to get drunk with the rich girl and go in the pool at the country club after hours; some girls will jump off the roof or set off rockets to impress a boy. The appearance of a mysterious stranger, screen name Fancy Pants, becomes Jack’s ultimate goal, and he tries to figure out which of the 24 girls she is.
Through a series of interesting and adventurous dates, Jack begins to find confidence. Some of the girls are crazy, some are sweet, and all make for some very funny stories. I love books that make me laugh out loud, and this one had many of those types of moments. I was in stitches when Jack is being taught how to kiss by his best friend, Natalie. There are also moments of bittersweet humor in this book, especially when it comes to Adrian Swift, the girl who really likes Jack, whom he blew off, and then who manages to see Jack with almost every single one of the other girls, often kissing them. There are moments of great tenderness, especially when it comes to Percy’s grandparents.

I really liked this book, and can see many of my students, male and female alike enjoying it. Although it is long, it has an inviting cover, an engaging story, and a hero with a seemingly ordinary personality having an extraordinary dating marathon. I loved it. Five Stars. Ages 14-20. show less

A breezy, fun read about a guy, Jack, whose best friends put an ad on his behalf in their school's online newspaper to advertise for a prom date. He has a week to go on 24 dates and find his date to the prom.
As Jack tries to navigate this strange situation, he gets some wise words along the way from the mysterious FancyPants. While his friends have his best interests at heart, they aren't always honest with Jack, whose week pushes his boundaries.
I really liked this line, "The worst thing that people can really do is say 'no' to you. And 'no' isn't that bad because eventually it helps point you in the right direction, I think. Helps you find 'yes'." (254)

24 Girls started out strong, but as I reached the half way point, I realized that I'd slowly begun to care less and less what happened to our hero. It's a really interesting premise, where a likeable guy's best friends post a joke ad for a prom date and he gets a list of possible girls, all of whom are not right in some way because he's been talking to someone called FancyPants online and we all know where that's heading. As much as I enjoyed the opening, it lost steam after the first third and I really didn't care anymore. I skimmed the last part of the book just to find out who FancyPants was.

Jack Grammar is a terminally shy senior trying to find a prom date. His friends place an ad in the school paper advertising this, and soon Jack has agreed to go on 24 dates in 7 days to choose his date. Very funny, and it's nice to see one of these from the boy's perspective.

I really liked this book. It is funny and intelliegent and upbeat. Jack is a very likeable guy who gains confidence and a sense of himself over the course of the week. The book also is good at showing how everyone is unsure of themselves to some degree. I would recommend this book to guys and girls.

Jack Grammar is one of those guys that isn't a dork but just barely made it out of the dork table in the lunch room. It's his senior year in high school and he wants to go to prom, so he asks his high school crush who says, "I thought you were a sophmore," and tells him no. Jack's friends decide they are going to help him out (and play a joke on him) by placing a personal in the online version of the school newspaper. Before they know it there are more responses than they can shake a stick at and Jack has to decide who he is going to take to the prom. They narrow the girls down to 24 and Jack has 7 days to date each one before he decides who he is going to take.

It was a funny and cute book and there were parts that gave me a good laugh. show more The one criticism is that Jack doesn't quite come off as a high school senior (he really does sound more like a sophomore (or freshman)). All in all a recommended book and a fun easy read. show less

This is a really cute young adult novel about a boy, Jack Grammar, who is trying to find a date for the senior prom. His friends write a personal ad for him to put on the school's website, and the response is overwhelming! The friends narrow the list down from hundreds of girls to just twenty-four, whom Jack must go out with in the last 7 days before prom. Parts of this book are laugh-out-loud funny, and overall it is just a great story that reads well and sticks with you once you're done.