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Laura Ruby's Books
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Everything I Needed to Know About Being a Girl I Learned from Judy Blume"I wonder if Judy Blume really knows how many girls' lives she affected. I wonder if she knows that at least one of her books made a grown woman...Read More
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Hamline, January 3, 2012
...of The Comeback Dog, Saying Good-Bye to Grandma, and Behind the Mask: The Life of Queen Elizabeth I. Laura Ruby writes fantasy, mystery, and contemporary realistic fiction for young readers. Her teen novels include Good Girls, Play Me, and Bad Apple. ...
Hamline, December 23, 2011
...of The Comeback Dog, Saying Good-Bye to Grandma, and Behind the Mask: The Life of Queen Elizabeth I. Laura Ruby writes fantasy, mystery, and contemporary realistic fiction for young readers. Her teen novels include Good Girls, Play Me, and Bad Apple. ...
Bristol-Warren Patch, August 9, 2011
...Swallowed the Key by Jack Gantos A Long Way from Chicago by Richard Peck Lily's Ghosts by Laura Ruby Pharaoh's Daughter by Julius Lester Regarding the Fountain by Kate Klise Scat by Carl Hiaasen Skeleton Man by Joseph Bruchac ...
Examiner.com, June 7, 2011
...I was paired with author Carolyn Crimi, who lives in Chicago. Two of our featured speakers, the amazing Laura Ruby and Frannie Billingsley, are both from Chicago, too. So I have been greatly influenced by Chicago children's writers!” Learn more about...
The Book Smugglers, October 4, 2011
...thresholds, put in imagery of transformation, of permanence and impermanence, nostalgia, time. I gave the first draft to Laura Ruby, my author friend whom I make read everything I write. She told me in her gentle way that she thought the book was...
Book Chic, June 30, 2011
...have connected with them: Beautiful by Amy Reed, Cracked Up to Be by Courtney Summers, Good Girls by Laura Ruby, Hold Still by Nina LaCour, Lessons from a Dead Girl by Jo Knowles, Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, Story of a Girl by Sara Zarr, and more. I...
The Cool Kids Table, June 21, 2011
...broad reaction to this whole thing could do worse than to check out this blog post from writer Laura Ruby , this Publishers Weekly article on the whole kerfuffle , this Minnesota public radio piece on everything , this NPR roundtable featuring Gurdon and...
All The Books I Can Read, May 1, 2011
...so far: I Came To Say Goodbye, by Caroline Overington, Perfect Chemistry, by Simone Elkeles, Good Girls, by Laura Ruby, A Turn In The Road, by Debbie Macomber, Rebecca, by Daphne Du Maurier, Where She Went, by Gayle Forman, The Winter Sea, by Susanna...
