by Sarah Dessen
Hennepin County Library audioCD 10 discs
read by Rebecca Soler
genre: YA realistic fiction
This was a much more gripping story than I anticipated. Ruby has been living alone for a few months since her mom took off. She has been pretending that everything is "fine," even though the heat doesn't work, the cockroaches are rampant, and she has to get water from the bathroom to do any cooking in the kitchen. When social services take her away to put her in the care of her sister Cora, the seventeen-year-old decides to take off after everyone is in bed. But when she tries to jump a fence that leads to the neighbor's pool area and Roscoe the dog barks like crazy, Ruby ends up with a new definition for the word family.
Poignant, painful, and very real . . . Nate and his dad, a new classmate and her cousin Lainie, Cora and her husband Jamie, the high-strung jewelry artist who hires her, . . . this is a mature story about relationships and humans learning to trust. Soler's vocal work was stellar.
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