Ruby on the Outside

Baskin, Nora Raleigh

ISBN 10: 1442485035 / ISBN 13: 9781442485037

Published by Simon & Schuster Books for Young, 2015

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Ruby on the Outside
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1442485035
• ISBN 13: 9781442485037
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Ruby’s mom is in prison, and to tell anyone the truth is to risk true friendship in this novel from the author of The Summer Before Boys that accurately and sensitively addresses a subject too often overlooked.

Eleven-year-old Ruby Danes is about to start middle school, and only her aunt knows her deepest, darkest, most secret secret: her mother is in prison.

Then Margalit Tipps moves into Ruby’s condo complex, and the two immediately hit it off. Ruby thinks she’s found her first true-blue friend—but can she tell Margalit the truth about her mom? Maybe not. Because it turns out that Margalit’s family history seems closely connected to the very event that put her mother in prison, and if Ruby comes clean, she could lose everything she cares about most.

About the Author

Nora Raleigh Baskin is the ALA Schneider Family Book Award–winning author of Anything But Typical. She was chosen as a Publishers Weekly Flying Start for her novel What Every Girl (Except Me) Knows, and has since written a number of novels for middle graders and teens, including The Truth About My Bat Mitzvah, The Summer Before Boys, and Ruby on the Outside. Nora lives with her family in Connecticut. Visit her at NoraBaskin.com.