Status
Available
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Publication
HarperCollins (2003), Edition: Harper Trophy ed., 96 pages
Description
Ruby wants to be a teacher, but after her father's death in a logging accident she must quit school to care for her ten brothers and sisters, until a chance meeting with a lonely old blind woman transforms her life.
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LibraryThing member Sonya.Contreras
Natalie gave a inside view of life from a ten-year old girl of a family of a lumberjack. The details of life intertwined in the story's movement, allowing the pace to keep my boys' attention, yet give depth of experience. A quick read that gave them a picture of life in another time with a
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Awards
Massachusetts Children's Book Award (Nominee — 2005)
William Allen White Children's Book Award (Nominee — Grades 3-5 — 2004-2005)
South Dakota Children's Book Awards (Nominee — 2005)
Sunshine State Young Reader's Award (Nominee — 2004)
Iowa Children's Choice Award (Nominee — 2008)
Maud Hart Lovelace Award (Nominee — 2006)
South Carolina Book Awards (Nominee — Children's Book Award — 2005)
Language
Original language
English
Original publication date
2002
Physical description
96 p.; 7.62 inches
ISBN
0064442926 / 9780064442923