Love, Ruby Lavender

Read by Judith Ivey
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On sale Mar 10, 2009 | 3 Hours and 58 Minutes | 978-0-7393-8574-6
Age 7-10 years | Grades 2-5
When Ruby’s grandmother, Miss Eula goes to visit her new grandbaby in Hawaii, Ruby is sure that she will have a lonely, empty, horrible summer without her 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.

“A lively, humorous story. . . . Colorful and spirited.”–School Library Journal, starred review
  • WINNER
    AudioFile Earphones Award
  • SELECTION | 2003
    ALSC Notable Children's Recordings
  • SELECTION | 2002
    ALA Notable Children's Book
  • SELECTION | 2002
    Capitol Choices Noteworthy Audiobook
Deborah Wiles is the award-winning author of Each Little Bird that Sings, a National Book Award Finalist; Love, Ruby Lavender, an ALA Notable Children's Book, a Children's Book Sense 76 Pick, an NCTE Notable Book for the Language Arts, and a New York Public Library Book for Reading and Sharing; Freedom Summer, a Coretta Scott King Honor Book; and One Wide Sky. She lives in Atlanta, Georgia. View titles by Deborah Wiles

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When Ruby’s grandmother, Miss Eula goes to visit her new grandbaby in Hawaii, Ruby is sure that she will have a lonely, empty, horrible summer without her 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.

“A lively, humorous story. . . . Colorful and spirited.”–School Library Journal, starred review

Awards

  • WINNER
    AudioFile Earphones Award
  • SELECTION | 2003
    ALSC Notable Children's Recordings
  • SELECTION | 2002
    ALA Notable Children's Book
  • SELECTION | 2002
    Capitol Choices Noteworthy Audiobook

Author

Deborah Wiles is the award-winning author of Each Little Bird that Sings, a National Book Award Finalist; Love, Ruby Lavender, an ALA Notable Children's Book, a Children's Book Sense 76 Pick, an NCTE Notable Book for the Language Arts, and a New York Public Library Book for Reading and Sharing; Freedom Summer, a Coretta Scott King Honor Book; and One Wide Sky. She lives in Atlanta, Georgia. View titles by Deborah Wiles