Ruby Electric - Softcover
How do three-quarters of a family, a woolly mammoth, the movies and a mystery make for the funniest heartbreaker in years? When the lights go down and you're sitting in the dark with your popcorn...that's the magic time that Ruby Miller loves best. For twleve-year old Ruby, movies are better than real life. And the ones she writes herself are the best of all. Those stories always work out. The dads in her movies always show up when they say they will, the mums don't hold onto secrets, and the little brothers don't curl up with sorrow over some missing stuffed animal. All right, so it's Ruby's fault he's missing...But if she were writing the script, the set up would be intriguing, the middle exciting and the ending a complete and happy surprise. She even has seven pages ready for Spielberg. But then real life keeps interrupting...
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How do three-quarters of a family, a woolly mammoth, the movies, and a mystery make for the funniest heartbreaker in years?
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WHEN THE LIGHTS GO DIM and you're sitting in the dark with your popcorn . . . that's the magic time that Ruby Miller loves best. And then the music creeps in, and the lion roars, or maybe the moon kid goes fishing . . .
For Ruby, age twelve and a half, movies are better than real life. The ones she writes, why, those are the best of all. Those stories work out. The dads in her movies always show up when they've promised. The moms don't hold onto secrets. The little brothers don't curl up with sorrow over some missing stuffed animal. All right, it's Ruby's fault he's missing . . .
But the terrible red-painted graffiti on the concrete riverbanks--is that her fault, too? She's blamed for it. And here she is on a chain gang with two stupid classmates--the Dumb and Dumber of Hayes Middle School--doing community service to make up for it.
If she were writing the script, the set up would be intriguing, the middle exciting, and the ending a complete and happy surprise. She has seven pages ready for Spielberg. But then, real life keeps interrupting.
Theresa Nelson's novel is an Oscar-worthy wonder starring a cast easy to care about and impossible to forget.
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- PublisherSimon & Schuster Children's
- Publication date2003
- ISBN 10 0689837585
- ISBN 13 9780689837586
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages224
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: As New. y First Edition. SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edn: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st. Full number line.* Date of Publication: 2003* Publisher: Atheneum Books (A Richard Jackson Book).* Binding and cover condition: THIS COPY IS PUBLISHED BY ATHENEUM BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS not detailed as SIMON & SCHUSTER who are the publishers of the normal paperback edition. Colour-illustrated soft card covers. No bumps or rubs. No shelf wear to edges or corners. No creases to spine or hinge. Seems lightly-used if at all. FINE* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY, in first class unread condition with no marks or annotations. Richard W. Jackson addresses the reader in a letter on the inside face of the front cover. FINE* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 261 pp. text. ii pp. acknowledgements.* Product Description:- ?Twelve-and-a-half-year-old Ruby Miller loves the magic time when the lights go dim and she's sitting in the dark with her popcorn waiting for the movie to start. For Ruby, movies are better than real life. And the ones she writes why those are the best of all.?* This is a FINE copy of the 1st./1st. fnl. With no visible faults*. n. Seller Inventory # 2817
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