Title: Love, Ruby Lavender
First published: 2001
Description: 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.
Subjects: Fiction, Death, Grandparents, Juvenile fiction, Chickens, Self-reliance, Grandmothers, Children's fiction, Grandparents, fiction, Chickens, fiction, Death, fiction, Mississippi, fiction, Self-reliance, fiction
Places: Mississippi
LC classification: PZ7.W6474 Lo 2001