Summary
By: tarrah boston
I read The Boy Book, by E. Lockhart. It was the second book in the series of books. It was about this girl Ruby Oliver and all of her issues as a junior at Tate Prep High School. In the first book Roo(for short) had all the friends and the boyfriend until her best friend Kim took her boy friend and her friends away, she became a leper(not really popular). She had a few friends like Meghan who drove her to school. This year she had a few scramming with Angelo who was his mom’s best friend’s son. They went to different schools so it never really ended up working out. Meghan’s boyfriend went to Harvard for college and she ended up breaking up with him because of cheating suspicions. Roo’s old friends were moved on too except for Nora they became friends again after Kim left for Tokyo on a foreign exchange program. Noel was the boy that could sit at any table at lunch he had a lot of good friends but no real best friends. Until him and Roo started to become friends by looking out for Nora after a wild party. Once every year for a week in November the kids at Tate Prep High School go traveling for some relaxation, you get to pick where you want to go. So for high schooler’s it’s a pretty big deal where you are going. Roo picked Canoe Island, with out anyone else’s opinion in the situation. But when Kim’s ends up coming home from Tokyo yearly, things get a little messy. Can they become friends again? And can Roo try to enjoy her time on the relaxing trip?
I read The Boy Book, by E. Lockhart. It was the second book in the series of books. It was about this girl Ruby Oliver and all of her issues as a junior at Tate Prep High School. In the first book Roo(for short) had all the friends and the boyfriend until her best friend Kim took her boy friend and her friends away, she became a leper(not really popular). She had a few friends like Meghan who drove her to school. This year she had a few scramming with Angelo who was his mom’s best friend’s son. They went to different schools so it never really ended up working out. Meghan’s boyfriend went to Harvard for college and she ended up breaking up with him because of cheating suspicions. Roo’s old friends were moved on too except for Nora they became friends again after Kim left for Tokyo on a foreign exchange program. Noel was the boy that could sit at any table at lunch he had a lot of good friends but no real best friends. Until him and Roo started to become friends by looking out for Nora after a wild party. Once every year for a week in November the kids at Tate Prep High School go traveling for some relaxation, you get to pick where you want to go. So for high schooler’s it’s a pretty big deal where you are going. Roo picked Canoe Island, with out anyone else’s opinion in the situation. But when Kim’s ends up coming home from Tokyo yearly, things get a little messy. Can they become friends again? And can Roo try to enjoy her time on the relaxing trip?
Review
I thought The Boy Book was really good. I think that it dealt with issues that teenagers do now, popularity, boyfriends, and school. I thought E. Lockhart the writer of the Boy Book did a good job at understanding what teenagers really want to read about. This is the second book in the series of The Boy Friend List, books. I read the first one first and read it really fast just like I read this book. They are both around two hundred pages each. She’s coming out with two more books after this book relatively soon. I can’t wait until they come out to read about the new events happening in Ruby Oliver’s life. I enjoyed how all the characters were portrayed in the book. My favorite character was Noel because he had asthma, but never carried he inhaler with him anywhere because he wants to not live life with a bunch of restrictions, he just wants to live and not be afraid of things happening. During the book Ruby talks about her ex-boyfriend and how she misses him and how she hates her old best friend Kim because she stole him from her. I thought it was fun and interesting her ways of trying to get him to notice her again. At the beginning of every chapter she had an entry from the boy book, which her and her old friends wrote. They normally had something to do with what was coming up next. The boy book was Ruby and her old friends way of translating boys. I enjoyed every page of this book.
