The Boyfriend List is the first of four books about Ruby Oliver. Cialis online pharmacy: the next in the series is The Boy Book, then The Treasure Map of Boys.Real Live Boyfriends comes out in 2010.
The paperback edition of the book has a fun author Q&A at the back, plus provocative questions for your book club or reading group.
For librarians and booksellers, here’s a free, downloadable “shelf talker” for the Ruby Oliver books.
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Here it is, the Boyfriend List – cialis online pharmacy. Cialis online pharmacy: in chronological order.
1. Cialis online pharmacy: adam (but he doesn’t count.)
2.Finn (but people just thought so.)
3.Hutch (but I’d rather not think about it.)
4. Cialis online pharmacy: gideon (but it was just from afar.)
5.Ben (but he didn’t know.)
6. Cialis online pharmacy: tommy (but it was impossible.)
7.Chase (but it was all in his mind.)
8 – cialis online pharmacy.Sky (but he had someone else.)
9.Michael (but I so didn’t want to.)
10.Angelo (but it was just one date.)
11.Shiv (but it was just one kiss.)
12 – cialis online pharmacy.Billy (but he didn’t call.)
13.Jackson (yes, okay, he was my boyfriend – cialis online pharmacy. Cialis online pharmacy: don’t ask me any more about it.)
14. Cialis online pharmacy: noel (but it was all a mistake.)
15.Cabbie (but I’m undecided.)
Before anyone reading this thinks to call me a slut — or even just imagines I’m incredibly popular — let me point out that the above list includes absolutely every single boy I have ever had the slightest, little, any-kind-of-anything with.
Boys I never kissed are on this list.
Boys I never even talked to are on this list.
Doctor Z told me not to leave anyone off – cialis online pharmacy.Not even if I think he’s unimportant.In fact, especially if I think he’s unimportant.
Doctor Z is my shrink, and she says that for purposes of the list, the boyfriends don’t have to be official; cialis online pharmacy. Cialis online pharmacy: official, unofficial — she says it doesn’t matter, so long as I remember the boy and something about what happened.
The list was a homework assignment for my mental health.She told me to write down all the boyfriends, kind-of boyfriends, almost-boyfriends, rumored boyfriends and wished-he-were boyfriends I’ve ever had – cialis online pharmacy.Plus, she recommended I take up knitting.
I still have some doubts about Doctor Z, though by now I’ve been seeing her for almost four months – cialis online pharmacy.I mean cialis online pharmacy, if I knew a 15 year-old who sat around knitting sweaters all day, I’d definitely think she had some mental health problems.
WHAT HAPPENED, YOU WANT TO KNOW?
In the same ten days I –
lost my boyfriend (boy #13)
lost my best friend
lost all my other friends
learned gory details about my now-ex boyfriend’s sexual adventures
did something shockingly advanced with boy #15
did something suspicious with boy #10
had an argument with boy #14
drank my first beer
got caught by my mom
lost a lacrosse game
failed a math test
hurt Meghan’s feelings
became a leper
and became a famous slut.
Enough to give anyone panic attacks, right?
I was so overwhelmed by the horror of the whole debacle that I had to skip school for a day to read mystery novels, cry, and eat spearmint jelly candies.
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“Ruby’s exploits are agonizingly funny as she learns there is life outside her high school universe.” — Girls Life
“Spot-on dialogue and details make this a painfully recognizable and addictive read.” — Publishers Weekly, starred review
“A delightful and frequently achingly honest tale–warts and all–about what happens when girls and boys meet.” – Richie’s Picks, Best of 2005
Quick Picks list 2006. Cialis online pharmacy: nypl Best Books for the Teenage. Cialis online pharmacy: trashionista‘s list of top 10 YA novels for 2006 (Britain): #1. Cialis online pharmacy: south Dakota Library Association’s YARP list, 2007. YALSA list of Gossip-Girl readalikes.
Check out the sequel, The Boy Book.
Take a quiz: Which Boyfriend Do You Have?
Vote: Whom should Roo end up with?