Teachers/Book Clubs
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Below, organized by book title, are resources to use for your classroom or book club.
Students doing school projects should check out the bio and the FAQ. Don’t forget to click on the links!
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THE BOYFRIEND LIST
THE BOY BOOK
THE TREASURE MAP OF BOYS
REAL LIVE BOYFRIENDS
The Boyfriend List paperback has an author Q&A plus discussion questions at the back.
Some books that make for interesting conversations in conjunction with The Boyfriend List and its sequels include: Looking for Alaska by John Green, Sloppy Firsts by Megan McCafferty (published for adults), Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld (published for adults), and The Nature of Jade by Deb Caletti, about a girl with panic disorder who works at the Seattle zoo, like Ruby.
If your book club has very young members or if you want your reading list particularly wholesome, try: Girl, 15, Charming but Insane by Sue Limb or Ninjas, Piranhas and Galileo by Greg Leitich Smith, both of which touch on some of the same issues.
Some other YA books with footnotes: An Abundance of Katherines by John Green, Bad Kitty by Michelle Jaffe, Beauty Queens by Libba Bray and Drawing a Blank by Daniel Ehrenhaft.
Video of E. Lockhart reading from Real Live Boyfriends at the NYC Teen Author Festival:
FLY ON THE WALL
The Fly on the Wall paperback has a Q&A plus discussion questions in the back.
Fly on the Wall takes inspiration from high and lowbrow culture sources — most particularly Kafka’s Metamorphosis and Spider-man comics.
For a good read that articulates much of what I think about the place of sex in books for teenagers, read Tanya Lee Stone’s Voya Essay, “Now and Forever: The Power of Sex in Young Adult Literature.”
DRAMARAMA
There are no publisher discussion guides for Dramarama, but if you have access to adlit.org you can search the title and find some interesting questions in an article there. Here, too, are some read-alikes and related movies beyond Camp Rock that would make for interesting comparisons:
• DVD documentary: Stagedoor
• DVD movie (fiction): Camp
• How I Paid for College by Marc Acito (contains adult situations)
• Beige by Cecil Castelluci
• My Life The Musical by Maryrose Wood
Dramarama and Fly on the Wall both feature gay male characters. If you want to read or recommend more books about gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender or questioning teens, please look at these stellar booklists:
• Reading Rants’s Closet Club: Gay Fiction for Teens
• Sara Ryan’s GLBT Booklist
• Alex Sanchez’s Great Books for Gay Teens
THE DISREPUTABLE HISTORY OF FRANKIE LANDAU-BANKS 
Here’s a PDF file of the Hyperion Discussion Guide for The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks. And an interview on the National Book Foundation’s website.
Here’s a video of me reading from Disreputable History at the National Book Awards.
And a PDF file of the Printz Honor speech I gave in 2009. And here, video of the same speech.
Audio recording: reading and chatting about the novel on Teaching Books.
Some interesting and spirited discussion of the book and its interpretations can be found at The Morning News Tournament of Books, here and here. More analysis of that whole business at the librarian blog, Tea Cozy — here and here.
HOW TO BE BAD
Readalikes that would make for good discussion on subjects of friendship: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares, Peaches by Jodi Lynn Anderson, TTYL by Lauren Myracle.
Other co-authored books for teen readers: Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist by David Levithan and Rachel Cohn;Will Grayson, Will Grayson by David Levithan and John Green; Sorcery and Cecelia by Patricia Wrede and Caroline Stevermer.
