The Boyfriend List

Girls' Life, Feb-March, 2005

The Boyfriend List by E. Lockhart Delacorte, $15.95

The "list" is mental-health homework for Ruby. Her shrink assigns it to her after Ruby loses her BF and BFF. The list includes any boy she's ever had anything with, including some she's never talked to, in hopes of helping Ruby get past the painful fickleness of teen affections. Ruby's exploits are agonizingly funny as she learns there is life outside her high school universe.