Ruby Flips for Attention
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Eight-year-old ultra-fabulous Ruby Marigold Booker returns in this reissue of the Ruby and the Booker Boys series by Newbery Honor and Coretta Scott King Honor author Derrick Barnes!Brought to you by Newbery Honor author Derrick Barnes, high-flying Ruby Booker soars to new heights! After watching her big cousin Kee Kee compete in a cheerleading competition, Ruby attempts to copy some of the high-flying moves she saw earlier. This cheerleading stuff could be just the thing to bring her a ton of attention. But during practice with Marcellus, she injures her arm and must be rushed to the hospital. The doctors fit her with a hot-pink cast that turns out to be a great conversation piece. After giving a million different versions of the accident to everyone at school, she becomes the center of attention after all!
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Vanessa Brantley-Newton is a self taught illustrator of more than 80 children’s books. She first fell in love with picture books when she was read the Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats as a child. It was the first time Vanessa saw an image of a brown child that looked like her. Diversity is at the very heart of her illustrations and storytelling. She has written and illustrated three of her own books, Let Freedom Sing, Don’t Let Auntie Mabel Bless The Table and Grandma’s Purse. Vanessa wants every child to know the joy she felt when she saw herself in a picture book. “I want every child to know that I see you.” Vanessa is a lover of music and food. When she isn’t creating children’s Books she is cooking or singing somewhere. She lives in NC with her husband of 25 years and her daughter Zoe.
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Book Details
- ISBN
- 9780545017633
- Publication Date
- March 1, 2009
- Publisher
- Scholastic Paperbacks
- Page Count
- 144
- Reading Age
- 7 - 10 years
- Lib. of Congress (LCCN)
- 2009282528
- WorldCat Number (OCLC)
- 231584711
- Lexile® Level
- 610L
- Est. Fountas & Pinnell Level
- ~O
- ATOS® Book Level
- 3.9
- Accelerated Reader® Points
- 2
- Accelerated Reader Quiz
- 129378
- Accelerated Reader Interest Level
- LG
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