24 girls in 7 days Kendra Johnson

The book starts out with dorky, Jack Grammar, talking to one of his best friends, Percy. Natalie and Percy are Jack’s best friends, or only friends pretty much. It starts with Jack asking this girl, Pamela, to “the prom”. She kind of made it sound like a yes and then he started going on and on and turned the almost yes into a no. ( Jack goes on and on in the book about how his whole life he used to think prom is so magical and they dreams come true on this special night) Percy and Natalie use this as a sign that they need to help their friend, Jack, get a prom date. After all, they were his best friends so why wouldn’t they try to help him. Natalie and Percy put up a personal ad on the school website that is a little poem about Jack asking for a prom date. At their school no one used the personal ad so when they put this up on the website everyone could see it. Jack found out about the ad, and was furious that someone would do this even as a joke. But within hours, there were responses to the ad. Natalie and Percy told Jack the next day that they had about 150 girls respond to the ad that wanted to go to prom with him, or at least get to know him. He was mad at first, but then it got him thinking about actually taking one of the girls to prom. So, Natalie and Percy came up with these fabulous ideas to have him go out on dates with 24 of the girls in 7 days and on the last day he would have to choose his prom date by midnight. Jack isn’t too fond of the idea, he’s only had one “girlfriend” and that only lasted about a half hour because they met at the airport and when she was leaving for her plane she gave Jack a kiss before she left. Jack didn’t have hardly any experience with girls, as you can tell. He really did’t have a choice when girls started showing up at his house for surprise dates because he wouldn’t answer his phone half the time. A couple girls even went as far as writing his name across their chests’. Throughout the book someone kept instant messaging him under the name fancy pants and giving him advice on which girls he should actually be going out with. All the girls he kept meeting and hanging out with seemed to be going good, he even got a couple more kisses. When he went on his date with Laura Gliden, and he even got really drunk, which was something hes never done. He was worried about his kissing, so he told fancy pants about his problems and she told him to practice with a good friend. So, he told Natalie and she was okay with helping a friend, even if it meant kissing him for a couple hours until he go the hang of it. Natalie showed Jack where to put his hands and told him to say “olive” when he kissed because that mimicked the motions you need to make with your lips and tongue. After he kind of got the hang of it, he started saying other things like; states, presidents, foods, places, and anything else he could think of. Jack Grammar was the talk of the school with everyone knowing about the ad, and the 24 girls in 7 days. More girls kept trying to come onto him because of his new popularity. Some girls would even get mad when he would reject them and act like they were way better then him. Jack didn’t under stand why these girls would act like that when their the ones that asked him out.

I found this book very humorous so far. Jack’s character is funny because of how awkward things are, like when he tries to talk to girls or when hes actually on a date with one. It relates to people a lot because while your reading it you feel how awkward or funny things are as the author portrays them to be.