Love, Ruby Lavender /
Wiles, Deborah.
Love, Ruby Lavender / Deborah Wiles. - 1st Gulliver Books paperback ed. - Orlando, Fla. : Harcourt, 2002 - xii, 212 pages : map ; 20 cm.
"Gulliver Books."
When Ruby's grandmother, Miss Eula goes to visit a new grandchild in Hawaii, nine-year-old Ruby is sure that she will have a lonely and boring summer in Halleluia, Mississippi. After all, what other granddaughter-grandmother duo would drive the getaway car for chickens rescued from the slaughterhouse, or paint a hoise shellshock pink? Instead, Ruby makes a new friend, saves the school play, writes plenty of letters to her favorite (and only) grandmother...and finally learns to stop blaming herself for her grandfather's death.
Ages 8 to 12. 570 Lexile.
0152054782 (trade pbk.) : $5.95
Lavender, Ruby (Fictitious character)--Juvenile fiction.
Grandparents--Juvenile fiction.
Self-reliance--Juvenile fiction.
Death--Juvenile fiction.
Bereavement in children--Juvenile fiction.
Animal rescue--Juvenile fiction.
Chickens--Juvenile fiction.
Life skills--Juvenile fiction.
Girls--Conduct of life--Juvenile fiction.
Mississippi--Juvenile fiction.
Love, Ruby Lavender / Deborah Wiles. - 1st Gulliver Books paperback ed. - Orlando, Fla. : Harcourt, 2002 - xii, 212 pages : map ; 20 cm.
"Gulliver Books."
When Ruby's grandmother, Miss Eula goes to visit a new grandchild in Hawaii, nine-year-old Ruby is sure that she will have a lonely and boring summer in Halleluia, Mississippi. After all, what other granddaughter-grandmother duo would drive the getaway car for chickens rescued from the slaughterhouse, or paint a hoise shellshock pink? Instead, Ruby makes a new friend, saves the school play, writes plenty of letters to her favorite (and only) grandmother...and finally learns to stop blaming herself for her grandfather's death.
Ages 8 to 12. 570 Lexile.
0152054782 (trade pbk.) : $5.95
Lavender, Ruby (Fictitious character)--Juvenile fiction.
Grandparents--Juvenile fiction.
Self-reliance--Juvenile fiction.
Death--Juvenile fiction.
Bereavement in children--Juvenile fiction.
Animal rescue--Juvenile fiction.
Chickens--Juvenile fiction.
Life skills--Juvenile fiction.
Girls--Conduct of life--Juvenile fiction.
Mississippi--Juvenile fiction.