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

• Reading level: Young Adult
• Paperback: 193 pages
• Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers (April 22, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0385732090
• ISBN-13: 978-0385732093

Cringe, laugh, and cry with Ruby Oliver as she learns to deal with boys, best friends, and her panic attacks!

Join Ruby Oliver at the start of her junior year at Tate Prep as she confronts:

• the secret about Noel
• mysterious notes from Jackson
• the interpretation of boy-speak
• the horrors of the school trip
• new entries in The Boy Book

There are Fruit Roll-Ups.
There is upper-regioning.
There are so many boys to choose from!
And there are penguins.

Only Ruby can keep her readers on her side even as those around her wonder, What is she thinking?!



Real Live Boyfriends: Yes. Boyfriends, plural. If my life weren’t complicated, I wouldn’t be Ruby Oliver

• Reading level: Young Adult
• Hardcover: 240 pages
• Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers (December 28, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 038573428X
• ISBN-13: 978-0385734288

Ruby Oliver, the neurotic, hyperverbal heroine of the The Boyfriend List, The Boy Book, and The Treasure Map of Boys, is back!

Ruby Oliver is in love. Or it would be love, if Noel, her real live boyfriend, would call her back. But Noel seems to have turned into a pod-robot lobotomy patient, and Ruby can’t figure out why.

Not only is her romantic life a shambles:
Her dad is eating nothing but Cheetos,
Her mother’s got a piglet head in the refrigerator,
Hutch has gone to Paris to play baguette air guitar,
Gideon shows up shirtless,
And the pygmy goat Robespierre is no help whatsoever.

Will Ruby ever control her panic attacks?
Will she ever understand boys?
Will she ever stop making lists?
(No to that last one.)

Roo has lost most of her friends. She’s lost her true love, more than once. She’s lost her grandmother, her job, her reputation, and possibly her mind. But she’s never lost her sense of humor. The Ruby Oliver books are the record of her survival.

THE DISREPUTABLE HISTORY OF FRANKIE LANDAU-BANKS

Printz Honor, 2009. Finalist for the 2008 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature. Cybils Award for best young adult novel. Publishers Weekly Best Books of the Year list. Richie’s Picks Best of 2008 List. Tayshas List, 2009. NY Times Notable Children’s Book list, 2008. School Library Journal Best Books of the Year, 2008. Library Journal’s list of Seattle Public Library’s Fiction Favorites of 2008. Chicago Public Library’s Best of the Best List. Washington Post Best Kids Books of the Year. Booklist Editors’ Choice. Morning News Tournament of Books, 2009. SLJ Tournament of Kids Books. Rhode Island Teen Book Awards Finalist.

“It would be a mistake to underestimate this novel — or its protagonist…[Frankie] will challenge girls’ images of themselves, who they are in relation to boys and why…The novel holds out the hope that a girl like Frankie — who has above all an unwillingness to settle —could grow up to change the world. “The Disreputable History” not only delivers the line, but somehow makes you believe it is true.” –The New York Times

“Big ideas are an essential part of the fun in this sparkling tour de force….An exuberant, mischievous story, it scores its points memorably and lastingly.”
– Publishers Weekly, starred review

“Lockhart has transcended the chick-lit genre…A funny feminist manifesto that will delight the anti–Gossip Girl gang.” 
– Kirkus, starred review

“An empowered female hero like Frankie is a rare and refreshing find. She is the ultimate feminist role model for teens: a girl with guts and imagination who’s brave enough to take on the “old boy’s club.” — School Library Journal, starred review

“An extraordinary read and a book that will really brand E. Lockhart as a major league YA author.” — Richie’s Picks

“Lockhart creates a unique, indelible character in Frankie.”
 — Booklist, starred review

Frankie Landau-Banks at age 14:Debate Club.Her father’s “bunny rabbit.”
A mildly geeky girl attending a highly competitive boarding school.

Frankie Landau-Banks at age 15:
A knockout figure.
A sharp tongue.
A chip on her shoulder.
And a gorgeous new senior boyfriend: the supremely goofy, word-obsessed Matthew Livingston.

Frankie Laundau-Banks.
No longer the kind of girl to take “no” for an answer.
Especially when “no” means she’s excluded from her boyfriend’s all-male secret society.
Not when her ex boyfriend shows up in the strangest of places.
Not when she knows she’s smarter than any of them.
When she knows Matthew’s lying to her.
And when there are so many, many pranks to be done.

Frankie Landau-Banks, at age 16:
Possibly a criminal mastermind.

This is the story of how she got that way.

Preview it here.

Click here to see video of the reading at the National Book Awards.

HOW TO BE BAD, co-written with Lauren Myracle and Sarah Mlynowski, in stores now.

Three girls with a need to get away.

Two boys who will shake up everything.

One adventure-filled road trip that teaches them all how to be a little bad.

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Which “bad girl” are you? Take the quiz.

Creating How to Be Bad was a ridiculous amount of fun. Sarah, Lauren and I wrote to keep each other entertained, to make each other laugh. We threw each other curve balls. (An alligator! A hot guy! A hurricane!)

We learned from each others’ skills. Sarah raised the stakes, Lauren layered the characters, I goosed the dialogue. We exchanged about ten thousand e-mails a day, no lie. We made playlists. Frankly, we’re wondering how we’ll ever go back to writing books on our own. Here’s the video:

How to Be Bad

Visit our How to Be Bad page to hear a very goofy podcast, read about how we wrote a book together, see our travel photos, and learn how we were “bad” in high school (Hint: Lauren was the worst!)

“The authors styles blend seamlessly, folding three characters’ distinct voices into a funny, poignant story about facing your troubles with friends at your side.” — Booklist

“Three deservedly popular YA authors take turns narrating this exuberant novel…Whip-smart dialogue and a fast-moving, picaresque plot that zooms from lump-in-the-throat moments to all-out giddiness will keep readers going, and it’s a testimony to how real these girls seem that the final chapters are profoundly satisfying rather than tidy.” — Publishers Weekly, starred review

Preview the book here. Then check out the playlist we made of the songs the girls listen to on their road trip:

And last but not least (silly dancing! puppetry! mini golf! singing!) click here to watch a home movie made by me, Sarah and Lauren of our May 2008 tour hijinks.

Fly on the Wall

Enter Gretchen Kaufman Yee.
Collector of plastic Chinese food.
Art student.
Spider-man fanatic.
Gretchen’s in search of a big life. A superhero life.

Enter the Art Rats, a group of guys at her NYC art school.
They’re loud. Sweet. Annoying. Confusing.

Gretchen can barely look at them, goes mute whenever they’re near.
Especially, Titus.
Delicious and smart. Absolutely on the radar.

Gretchen wishes she could be a fly on the wall of the boys’ locker room, just to see what these guys are like when they think no one’s watching.
And then… there she is.

A fly.
 On the wall of the locker room.

She sees…EVERYTHING.
And nothing is what she thought.

“I think this might be the best YA novel… I’ve ever read. It’s this crazy brilliant upending of all the sexual stereotypes we’ve ever had… It’s hilarious, and it’s so very smart.” — John Green, An Abundance of Katherines and Looking for Alaska

“With an appropriate nod and a wink of Kafka, this unexpectedly sharp comedy charts its own metamorphosis.” — The Horn Book

“Fast paced, hysterically funny, and a pleasure to read.” – TeenReads

“The stylish text (rendered nearly multivocal by the periodic font changes) combined with Gretchen’s frank fascination with the oddity and then the humanity of the male body and psyche are a rare treat.” — The Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books

Take the quiz (and see the old cover art): What’s Your Fly Style?

Preview the book.

“Very smart and very funny… theater lovers will swoon, and everyone else will appreciate the twists and the ending you don’t see coming.” — Booklist, starred review

Dramarama is in stores now, in paperback. Preview it here.

Two theater-mad, self-invented, fabulositon Ohio teenagers.One boy, one girl.One gay, one straight.One black, one white.And SUMMER DRAMA CAMP.It’s a season of hormones,gold lamé,hissy fits,jazz hands,song and dance,true love,and unitards that will determine their future–and test their friendship.

Click here to see the geektastic, Gleektastic musical theater section of my blog, including videos of key songs from Dramarama, musical theater interviews with YA authors, and any and all related madness.

All the songs from Dramarama are here, on an iMix. Click on the link and iTunes will open straight to the mix.
Listen before you read Dramarama to make sure you get every little musical reference. Listen afterwards to get a sense of Sadye and Demi’s musical world. (No iTunes? click here for the straight-up songlist.) ”

Also, check out the audiobook, narrated by Kate Reinders, who played Glinda in Wicked on Broadway!

“Jealousies swirl, talent shines and insecurities bloom amid the intense competition, reflected in Lockhart’s zippy prose. … Anyone with the acting bug will grab this and devour it in one bite. Exhilarating.” — Kirkus

“Dramarama far surpasses other books that I have read. Aside from the hilarious plot and narration, E. Lockhart adds in issues that anyone who reads this novel is able to connect with.” — Teens Read Too

“Teens will identify strongly with both the heartbreak and the humor in this authentic portrayal of friendships maturing and decaying….An effervescent read, this is an excellent purchase.” — School Library Journal

Booklist “Top Ten in the Arts” list. Kirkus Best Books for Young Adults, 2007. Garden State Teen Book Awards nomination, 2010. Reading Rants Top Ten for 2007; BBYA, 2008.

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