Highly recommended for all middle school collections. Pair with I love you, Michael Collins and Hidden Figures. Told through Ruby’s perceptive and intelligent perspective, this is a story that will stay with readers long after they finish. While Ruby is an angry and withdrawn teenager, her friendships with Abigail and her ever-forbearing classmate Ahmed, a recent Syrian refugee, keep her from fully shutting down and she proves to be an immensely compelling survivor. Slowly and tentatively, Ruby and Abigail form a sweet and powerful bond that pulls Ruby out of her tightly wound isolation while Ruby offers Abigail a chance to finally share the terrible loss she harbors which prevents her from stepping foot back in her home. Against her mother’s expectation to stay away from the old woman down the street, Ruby and her dog Bob are drawn to The Bird Lady, the townspeople’s cruel name for this strange woman who lives in the shed on her property. Bloom Children's Book Discovery Award, and the New Voices in Children's Literature: Tassy Walden Award. Ruby in the Sky is her first novel, and it won the SCBWI Work-in-Progress Award, the PEN New England Susan P. Ruby’s mother, in a desperate attempt to cope with their loss, has been moving Ruby around the country searching for their “forever home.” Ruby has had enough and this most recent move to a small town in Vermont has only worsened Ruby and her mother’s relationship. Jeanne Zulick Ferruolo lives in Ellington, Connecticut, with her husband and children. Ruby Moon Hayes has recently lost her father from a tragic and senseless shooting. Two stories of grief entwine throughout this emotionally-charged story of finding the courage to once again have faith in people and hope in the future. Ruby in the Sky by Jeanne Zulick Ferruolo
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