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Title details for Love, Ruby Lavender by Deborah Wiles - Available

Love, Ruby Lavender

by Deborah Wiles
Judith Ivey
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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

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  • Release date

    February 26, 2002

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9780739385746
      • File size: 114194 KB
      • Duration: 03:57:54

  • Languages

    • English

  • Levels

    • ATOS Level: 4.2
    • Lexile® Measure: 630
    • Interest Level: 4-8(MG)
    • Text Difficulty: 2-3

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Good garden of peas! It's hard to imagine a better book for audio narration than this charming, funny, and deeply touching novel of life in the small town of Halleluia, Mississippi. Think kidnapped chickens! Think Yoo-Hoo and pink muumuus! Think handmade quilts, letters tucked into the root tangle of a silver maple tree, and the deep love between a granddaughter--9-year-old Ruby L--and her widowed grandmother--Miss Eula. Judith Ivey's long, leisurely vowels are filled with the sultriness of summer, the longing for connection, the generations-old belief that life does go on, even after a tragic loss. Ivey, Bemmie, and Bess will squawk at you. Miss Mattie will scold you sternly. Aunt Tot will bless your heart. Miss Eula will cajole you with the hoarse voice of reason. And Ruby herself will charm you with her brash enthusiasm and down-home sincerity. There's more fun and feeling here than you can shake a stick at! T.B. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award, 2003 ALA Notable Recording (c) AudioFile 2002, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      March 14, 2005
      Charming nine-year-old Ruby invites readers to view life with her grandmother in small-town Halleluia, Mississippi, with a winsome third-person narrative that incorporates letters, newspaper articles and an abundance of comical details. Ages 8-12.

Formats

  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

subjects

Languages

  • English

Levels

  • ATOS Level:4.2
  • Lexile® Measure:630
  • Interest Level:4-8(MG)
  • Text Difficulty:2-3

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