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The boyfriend list (15 guys, 11 shrink appointments, 4 ceramic frogs, and me, Ruby Oliver)

A Seattle fifteen-year-old explains some of the reasons for her recent panic attacks, including breaking up with her boyfriend, losing all her girlfriends, tensions between her performance-artist mother and her father, and more.

Main Author: Lockhart, E.
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Delacorte Press, c2005.
Subjects:
Oliver, Ruby (Fictitious character) > Young adult fiction.
Interpersonal relations > Young adult fiction.
Dating (Social customs) > Young adult fiction.
High schools > Young adult fiction.
Schools > Young adult fiction.
Friendship > Young adult fiction.
Seattle (Wash.) > Young adult fiction.
Summary: A Seattle fifteen-year-old explains some of the reasons for her recent panic attacks, including breaking up with her boyfriend, losing all her girlfriends, tensions between her performance-artist mother and her father, and more.
Physical Description: 229 p. ; 20 cm.
Audience: Ages 12 and up.
Awards: A Junior Library Guild selection.
ISBN: 0385732066 (trade) :
0385902387 (glb)
Author Notes: E. Lockhart is the author of We Were Liars, Fly on the Wall, Dramarama, The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks and the Ruby Oliver quartet: The Boyfriend List, The Boy Book, The Treasure Map of Boys, and Real Live Boyfriends. She also co-authored How to Be Bad with Lauren Myracle and Sarah Mlynowski.

Lockhart's Disreputable History was a Printz Award honor book, a finalist for the National Book Award, and recipient of the Cybils Award for best young adult novel.

Lockhart has a doctorate in English literature from Columbia University and currently teaches creative writing at Hamline University's MFA program in Writing for Children. In 2015 the title We Were Liars made the Silver Inky Awards shortlist.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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