Why do you think Doctor Z asks Ruby to write the Boyfriend List? Do you agree with all Ruby's selections of "boyfriends" to include? Why or why not? In the end, would you consider the boyfriend list a successful experiment or a failure? Why? Be sure to include examples from the text to help strengthen your arguments.

Describe Ruby's teenage encounter with her first "boyfriend," Adam Cox. Why did this encounter have such a profound effect on Ruby? What does the reader learn about Ruby and the way she relates to boys through her narration of this experience? Be sure to include examples from the text to help strengthen your arguments.

Why is Ruby friends with Kim? In your opinion, is Ruby's relationship with Kim a true friendship, or is Noel right: that Ruby's friends are not really her friends? In your opinion, which...