TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wiles,Deborah
TI  - Love, Ruby Lavender
SN  - 0152054782
PY  - 2002///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
KW  - Lavender, Ruby (Fictitious character)
KW  - Juvenile fiction
KW  - Grandparents
KW  - Self-reliance
KW  - Death
KW  - Bereavement in children
KW  - Animal rescue
KW  - Chickens
KW  - Life skills
KW  - Girls
KW  - Conduct of life
KW  - Mississippi
KW  - Fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Novels
N1  - "Gulliver Books."; Includes a reading group guide; Includes an excerpt to Each little bird that sings; 570; Lexile; Ages 8-12
N2  - 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 whole house shell-shock 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
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