num_pages: 188
description: Ruby Lavender and Miss Eula are a pretty good team, for a couple of chicken thieves. What other granddaughter-grandmother duo could successfully drive the getaway car for chickens rescued from a journey to the slaughterhouse, paint a whole house shocking pink, and operate their own personal secret-letter post office?	So, when Miss Eula leaves for Hawaii to visit her new grandbaby, Ruby is sure that she will have a lonely, empty, horrible summer in boring old Halleluia, Mississippi. What happens instead? She makes a new friend, saves the school play, writes plenty of letters to her favorite (and only) grandmother...and finally learns to stop blaming herself for her grandfather's death. Not too bad, for a nine-year-old.
language: English
title: Love, Ruby Lavender
titlecomplete: Love, Ruby Lavender
genres: Juvenile, Fiction, Family, Humor, Contemporary, Realistic Fiction, Young Adult, Childrens, Chapter Books, Middle Grade
ratings_count: 4690
places: Halleluia, Mississippi
series: Aurora County
awards: awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Vermont Golden Dome Book Award, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: California Young Readers Medal
category: Intermediate, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Alabama Author Award
category: Juvenile
publisher: Clarion Books