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Love, Ruby Lavender by Deborah Wiles
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Love, Ruby Lavender

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Narrator Judith Ivey

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Length 3 hours 57 minutes
Language English
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Who is Ruby Lavender? She used to have a fun life, until her Yoo-hoo-drinking, pink muumuu-wearing, best friend of a grandmother up and left for Hawaii to spend the summer with her new (smelly) grandbaby. Now Ruby is stuck in boring old Halleluia, Mississippi, reading to her chickens, sweeping floors at the general store (torture), and being tormented by the curly-haired, tip-tapping Melba Jane.
 
In letter after letter, nine-year-old Ruby pours out her heart to her grandmother. But there is one thing Ruby cannot tell even her—the very same thing that makes Ruby take the long way home every single time and that makes her hate Melba Jane more than anyone.
 
She’s resourceful. She’s feisty. She’s in for some big surprises. Oh, Miss Ruby Lavender—she will pull at your heart.

Deborah Wiles is the award-winning author of Each Little Bird that Sings, a National Book Award Finalist; Love, Ruby Lavender, an ALA Notable Children's Book, a Children's Book Sense 76 Pick, an NCTE Notable Book for the Language Arts, and a New York Public Library Book for Reading and Sharing; Freedom Summer, a Coretta Scott King Honor Book; and One Wide Sky. She lives in Atlanta, Georgia.

Judith Ivey is an American actress, voice-over artist, and director. She's appeared in numerous Broadway plays, including two for which she won Tony Awards as Best Featured Actress in a Play: Steaming in 1983 and Hurlyburly in 1985. Her narrations include The Crowning Glory of Calla Lily Ponder by Rebecca Wells and My Louisiana Sky by Kimberly Willis Holt.

Deborah Wiles is the award-winning author of Each Little Bird that Sings, a National Book Award Finalist; Love, Ruby Lavender, an ALA Notable Children's Book, a Children's Book Sense 76 Pick, an NCTE Notable Book for the Language Arts, and a New York Public Library Book for Reading and Sharing; Freedom Summer, a Coretta Scott King Honor Book; and One Wide Sky. She lives in Atlanta, Georgia.

Judith Ivey is an American actress, voice-over artist, and director. She's appeared in numerous Broadway plays, including two for which she won Tony Awards as Best Featured Actress in a Play: Steaming in 1983 and Hurlyburly in 1985. Her narrations include The Crowning Glory of Calla Lily Ponder by Rebecca Wells and My Louisiana Sky by Kimberly Willis Holt.

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