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Gr 5-8 Living near the concreted Los Angeles River with her mother and little brother, 12-year-old Ruby misses rivers that actually have water in them and her mysteriously absent policeman father. In her mind, he is on secret missions; but, painfully, she is always expecting him to show up anywhere and everywhere. Adding to the busy dialogue in her head are her movie scripts that she wants Spielberg to produce. She must also figure out why her mother refuses ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

When Ruby Miller, twelve and a half (and, with any luck, a future colleague of Steven Spielberg), is caught with a can of spray paint in front of a graffiti-covered wall, no one seems interested in the truth: she was trying to cover up a stupid poem written—for her—by "Big Skinny" Bogart, one half of "the seventh-grade version of Dumb and Dumber." Brainy Ruby finds herself sentenced to fifty hours of community service with the two "giggling hooligans," and she can't imagine that any good will come of it. Plus, she has more important things to focus ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More