Status
Available
Call number
Publication
A Yearling Book (Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers)
Pages
150
Description
Just before the beginning of World War I, eight-year-old Ruthie, who lives with her parents and six brothers on a farm in Indiana, wishes for a sister and tries to behave like the lady her mother wants her to be.
Collection
Language
Original language
English
Original publication date
1999
Physical description
150 p.; 7.6 inches
ISBN
0440414059 / 9780440414056
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LibraryThing member nizmart
I read this book when I was a lot younger and enjoyed it. I have since passed it on to my younger cousin who also loved it.
LibraryThing member br13crgi
The book ruthie's gift is a excellent book. It is about a girl named ruthie she has only brothers. her mother becomes pregnant and she wishes that it will be a girl.Her mom ends up having a boy . up the street a new family moves in. its two girls her age and a new baby sister.she knows now that she
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would not be the only one in her grade .but she ends up getting really sick. this book is a well written book but is for younger readers Show Less
LibraryThing member fingerpost
This is Kimberly Brubaker Bradley's first novel, and it feels like it. Her talents are still in the honing phase.
Ruthie is the only daughter in a household with 6 or 7 brothers (I lost count) and she wants to please her mother by becoming a "lady" but the challenge is frequently too great. She's
In Ruthie's Gift, she has taken a collection of stories and memories from her own grandmother and rearranged them into a novel. Many little episodes are true or true-ish stories from that woman's childhood. As such, the episodes are sometimes good, but the overall story is rather weak. The conclusion felt flat and anticlimactic.
Ruthie is the only daughter in a household with 6 or 7 brothers (I lost count) and she wants to please her mother by becoming a "lady" but the challenge is frequently too great. She's
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more likely to do what all her brothers are doing and disappointing her mother, yet again.In Ruthie's Gift, she has taken a collection of stories and memories from her own grandmother and rearranged them into a novel. Many little episodes are true or true-ish stories from that woman's childhood. As such, the episodes are sometimes good, but the overall story is rather weak. The conclusion felt flat and anticlimactic.
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Awards
Young Hoosier Book Award (Nominee — Intermediate — 2003)
Triple Crown Awards (Nominee — 2001)
Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award (Nominee — 2002)
William Allen White Children's Book Award (Nominee — Grades 3-5 — 2000-2001)
Maud Hart Lovelace Award (Nominee — 2003)
Call number
J3B.Bra