Laura L Ruby

Lily's Ghosts

Lily's Ghosts

Lily's Ghosts

The Wall And the Wing

The Wall and the Wing

The Wall and the Wing

The Chaos King

The Chaos King

Honokaa Town (Images of America)

Walk down Mamane Street, the heart of Honokaa Town, and step back into the late 19th and early 20th century. Honokaas single-wall, wooden plantation-era buildings are as much a symbol of Hawaii to local people as Diamond Head is to tourists. The commercial buildings have their emblematic false front...

I'm Not Julia Roberts

Does every second wife look like Julia Roberts? Lu Kleincertainly doesn't, and her life is anything but glamorous. When she marrieda man with children, Lu had no idea that she was also marrying his shrewishex-wife, Beatrix. And Beatrix had no idea that making a new home with hersecond husband would ...

Play Me

Eddy knows how to play the game. He is, after all, the writer, director, and cameraman—the mastermind, really—behind the hit online TV show Riot Grrl 16. When it wins a contest to be aired on MTV (and it obviously will—have you seen the competition?), he'll be famous. Then there's the game of lo...

Bad Apple

"If I really wanted to open up, I'd confess that I really am the liar everyone believes I am."High-school junior Tola Riley has green hair, a nose ring, an attitude problem, and a fondness for fairy tales, which are a great escape from real life. Everyone thinks she's crazy; everyone says so. Everyo...

The Wall and the Wing

In one vast and sparkling city, everyone can fly. Almost everyone. A few, nicknamed leadfeet, are sentenced by a trick of nature or fate to forever spend their lives closer to the ground. But one night, a girl named Gurl -- a leadfoot, an orphan, a nobody -- discovers that she can do something...

Bone Gap

A National Book Award Longlist Title"Bone Gap marks Laura Ruby as one of fiction's most original voices. She is capable of moving you to tears, terrifying you on deep and dreamlike levels, and making your heart shout with happiness. This book is magic realism at its most magical."—E. Lockhart, autho...

Good Girls

Some people would say this is the story of a photograph. How it was taken and what happened to me after the whole world saw it. And it is. But it's also the story of a lot of other things.So look at the picture all you want. I am so much more than what you see.

Lily's Ghosts

A sinister old house, an intriguing new friend, a fifty-year-old mystery, and a tag-team of disgruntled ghosts force thirteen-year-old Lily to unearth her family's deepest secrets in this multilayered tale that's both hilarious and harrowing, comic and creepy.