01289cam a2200313 4500 598889820 TxAuBib 20021204120000.0 000830s2001||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 00011159 9780152023140 lib. bdg. $16.00 0152023143 lib. bdg. $16.00 TxAuBib Wiles, Debbie. Love, Ruby Lavender / Deborah Wiles. San Diego : Harcourt, 2001. vii, 188 p. ; 22 cm. "Gulliver Books.". William Allen White nominee 2003-2004. From the parents and students of Pleasant Valley. When her quirky grandmother goes to Hawaii for the summer, nine-year-old Ruby learns to survive on her own in Mississippi by writing letters, befriending chickens as well as the new girl in town, and finally coping with her grandfather's death. 20021204. Grandparents Fiction. Self-reliance Fiction. Death Fiction. Chickens Fiction. Mississippi Fiction. https://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/description/har021/00011159.html Publisher description