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Gr 9 Up—Ruby, who is Filipino American, recently graduated high school and now spends her time painting. Not the paintings she'd love to create, but instead painting walls and ceilings with hundreds of strokes of eggshell white. All her friends have moved on with their lives, but she is stuck under a pile of bills from the cancer that killed her mother and a father who is drinking more and more. Ellickson captures the beauty of art and San Francisco with her lyric...Log In or Sign Up to Read More