Love, Ruby Lavender

Ruby Lavender and Miss Eula are a pretty good team, for a couple of chicken thieves. What other granddaughter-grandmother duo could successfully drive the getaway car for chickens rescued from a journey to the slaughterhouse, paint a whole house shocking pink, and operate their own personal secret-letter post office?So, when Miss Eula leaves for Hawaii to visit her new grandbaby, Ruby is sure that she will have a lonely, empty, horrible summer in boring old Halleluia, Mississippi. What happens instead? She 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. Not too bad, for a nine-year-old. ISBN: 9780152054786ISBN 10: 0152054782Imprint: Clarion BooksOn Sale: March 1, 2005 Pages: 240 pages $9.99 Age: 8 to 12 BISAC1: YOUNG ADULT FICTION: Family / Multigenerational * BISAC2: YOUNG ADULT FICTION: Social Themes / Death, Grief, Bereavement BISAC3: YOUNG