Ruby on the Outside (12 page)

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Baskin, Nora Raleigh.

Ruby on the outside / Nora Raleigh Baskin.—1st edition.

pages cm

Summary: Eleven-year-old Ruby Danes has a real best friend for the first time ever, but agonizes over whether or not to tell her a secret she has never shared with anyone—that her mother has been in prison since Ruby was five—and over whether to express her anger to her mother.

ISBN 978-1-4424-8503-7 (hardcover)

ISBN 978-1-4424-8505-1 (eBook) 

[1. Mothers and daughters—Fiction. 2. Prisoners' families—Fiction. 3. Best friends—Fiction. 4. Friendship—Fiction. 5. Aunts—Fiction.]  I. Title.

PZ7.B29233Rub 2015

 [Fic]—dc23

2014018268