Hardcover, 432 pages
English language
Published April 22, 2008 by Viking Juvenile.
3 stars
(1 review)
When she is abandoned by her alcoholic mother, high school senior Ruby winds up living with Cora, the sister she has not seen for ten years, and learns about Cora's new life, what makes a family, how to allow people to help her when she needs it, and that she too has something to offer others.
Subjects
- Juvenile Fiction
- Children's Books - Young Adult Fiction
- Children: Young Adult (Gr. 7-9)
- Girls & Women
- Juvenile Fiction / Girls & Women
- Abandoned children
- Family
- Fiction
- Self-actualization (Psychology)