Hell.
I’ll get my stupid slice of pizza by myself, then.
ALSO BY e. lockhart
The Boyfriend List
Fly on the Wall
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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
Copyright © 2006 by E. Lockhart
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Lockhart, E.
The boy book: a study of habits and behaviors, plus techniques for taming them / E. Lockhart.
p. cm.
Companion to the author’s The boyfriend list.
Summary: A high school junior continues her quest for relevant data on the male species, while enjoying her freedom as a newly licensed driver and examining her friendship with a clean-living vegetarian classmate.
eISBN: 978-0-375-84880-3
[1. Interpersonal relations—Fiction. 2. Dating (Social customs)—Fiction. 3. Schools—Fiction. 4. High schools—Fiction. 5. Friendship—Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.L79757Boy 2006
[Fic]—dc22 2006004601
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Table of Contents
E Lockhart The Boy Book (Ruby Oliver 2)
Title Page
Dedication
1. The Care and Ownership of Boobs
2. Rules for Dating in a Small School
3. Your Business is Our Business: A Pledge
4. What to Wear When You Might Be Fooling Around
5. Scamming: Our Brief and Irregular History
6. Levels of Boyfriends
7. Neanderthals on the Telephone: Or, How to Converse
8. Boy-Speak: Introduction to a Foreign Language
9. Clever Comebacks to Catcalls
10. Why You Want the Guy You Can’t Have: Inadequate Analysis of a Disturbing Psychologica
11. The Kaptain Is In
12. Why Girls Are Better than Boys
13. The Girl Book: A Disorganized Notebook of Thoughts, with No Particular Purpose, Writt
Acknowledgments
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Also by E. Lockhart
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