Birthday Girl

What is the significance of the novel’s title? Use evidence from the text to support your answer.

Toward the end of the novel, Jake discovers a jar in which Jordan has stored a written list of her dreams. What do the dreams suggest about Jordan? How do they support what we have already learned about her? How, if it all, do they deviate from her established character traits?

Does the novel depict the love between Pike and Jordan as forbidden and/or taboo? In what way does the novel conform to and deviate from other age-gap romances?