Being Friends with Boys

From the author of Pure and The Summer of Firsts and Lasts, a friendship story with one girl, several boys, and lots of complications.

Charlotte and Oliver have been friends forever. She knows that he, Abe, and Trip consider her to be one of the guys, and she likes it that way. She likes being the friend who keeps them all together. Likes offering a girl's perspective on their love lives. Likes being the behind-the-scenes wordsmith who writes all the lyrics for the boys' band. Char has a house full of stepsisters and a past full of backstabbing (female) ex-best friends, so for her, being friends with boys is refreshingly drama-free...until it isn't anymore.
When a new boy enters the scene and makes Char feel like, well, a total girl...and two of her other friends have a falling out that may or may not be related to one of them deciding he might want to be more than friends with Char...being friends with all these boys suddenly becomes a lot more complicated.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Published: 05/01/2012
ISBN: 9781442421592
Pages: 368
Weight: 0.96lbs
Size: 8.54h x 5.83w x 1.21d

Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 03/01/2012
Voice of Youth Advocates 06/01/2012 pg. 163 - Reviewed - More Editing Needed
School Library Journal 06/01/2012 pg. 129
Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2012 pg. 106 - Recommended, Satisfactory

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 151428 / Being Friends with Boys
Reading Level: 4.6 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 12