![]() ![]() "The stories of the main characters intertwine beautifully, each one demonstrating the self-trust that enables them to do the right thing and to forgive. ![]() I couldn't read it fast enough." - Barbara O'Connor, New York Times -bestselling author of Wish "Bravery, friendship, heartbreak, and a dog. Ruby in the Sky is a story of the walls we hide behind, and the magic that can happen when we're brave enough to break free. Before long Ahmad and Abigail have become Ruby's friends-and she realizes there is more to their stories than everyone knows.Īs ugly rumors begin to swirl around the people Ruby loves, she must make a choice: break her silence, or risk losing everything that's come to mean so much to her. Or when she meets "the Bird Lady," a recluse named Abigail who lives in a ramshackle shed near Ruby's house. She and her mother won't be staying long in Vermont anyway, and then things can go back to the way they were before everything went wrong.īut keeping to herself isn't easy when Ahmad Saleem, a Syrian refugee, decides he's her new best friend. Ruby just wants to stay as silent and invisible as a new moon in the frozen sky. And she definitely does not want to make any friends. She does not want them to know her mother has been arrested. ![]() Twelve-year-old Ruby Moon Hayes does not want her new classmates to ask about her father. A Washington Post KidsPost Summer Book Club Read ![]()
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