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Ruby Holler
By Creech, Sharon
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-06027-732-1 978-0-06027-733-8
- Publisher
- Cotler HarperCollins
REVIEWS
School Library Journal
Reviewed on April 1, 2002
Gr 4-6 Orphaned twins Dallas and Florida have resigned themselves to living within the confines of the Boxton Creek Home for Children. It's a loveless existence. The Trepids, owners and "rule enforcers" of the home, target the brother and sister at every opportunity and all of the prospective adoptive parents have returned them to the orphanage. Eventually the children are sent to act as te...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on May 1, 2002
Midway along the road between Lemony Snicket's ironical nightmares and the luminous logic of Tuck Everlasting lies Ruby Holler. Here, too, villains are avaricious and events schematic, designed as much to support the author's ideas as to propel her protagonists' fortunes. Twins Dallas and Florida, thirteen, have been placed by orphanage proprietors Mr. and Mrs. Trepid (who as villains would be right at home in a Dickens or a Dahl novel) in yet another foster home, the first to...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
