The Boy Book ─ A Study of Habits and Behaviors, Plus Techniques for Taming Them

Here is how things stand at the beginning of newly-licensed driver Ruby Oliver's junior year at Tate Prep:

?‧ Kim: Not speaking. But far away in Tokyo.
?‧ Cricket: Not speaking.
?‧ Nora: Speaking--sort of. Chatted a couple times this summer when they bumped into each other outside of school--once shopping in the U District, and once in the Elliot Bay Bookstore. But she hadn't called Ruby, or anything.
?‧ Noel: Didn't care what anyone thinks.
?‧ Meghan: Didn't have any other friends.
?‧ Dr. Z: Speaking.
?‧ And Jackson. The big one. Not speaking.

But, by Winter Break, a new job, an unlikely but satisfying friend combo, additional entries to The Boy Book and many difficult decisions help Ruby to see that there is, indeed, life outside the Tate Universe.


From the Hardcover edition.

E. Lockhart wrote The Boyfriend List, in which Ruby Oliver spills her guts about the Spring Fling Debacle and countless other horrors not for the faint of heart. Another Ruby story can be found in the anthology Not Like I'm Jealous Or Anything. Lockhart also wrote Fly on the Wall, in which a teenage comic-book artist gets transformed into a housefly on the wall of the boys locker room in her high school.

For more information, plus ridiculous quizzes and reader boyfriend lists, visit www.theboyfriendlist.com. The author lives in Brooklyn, NY.


From the Hardcover edition.