Laura Ruby (1) (1977–)
Autor de Bone Gap
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Sobre El Autor
Laura Ruby writes fiction for adults, young adults, and children. Her works include Good Girls, Play Me, Bad Apple, Lily's Ghosts, The Wall and the Wing, The Chaos King, the York Trilogy, and a collection of interconnected short stories about blended families for adults entitled I'm Not Julia mostrar más Roberts. She won the 2016 Michael L. Printz Award for Bone Gap. She teaches at Hamline University's Masters in Writing for Children Program. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre canónico
- Ruby, Laura
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1977-04-17
- Género
- female
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- New Jersey, USA
- Lugares de residencia
- Chicago area, Illinois, USA
- Educación
- Rutgers University (BA ∙ English)
- Ocupaciones
- creative writing professor
novelist
children's book author - Organizaciones
- Queens University of Charlotte
Hamline University - Premios y honores
- Printz Award (2016)
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 12
- También por
- 2
- Miembros
- 3,599
- Popularidad
- #7,039
- Valoración
- 3.8
- Reseñas
- 176
- ISBNs
- 151
- Idiomas
- 7
I enjoyed Ruby's Bone Gap several years ago and was hesitant about a WWII-era historical fiction, but this book shares the same beautifully dreamy storytelling with a good dose of suspense and intrigue.
A bit longer and more involved than I would like from an audiobook (my attention span fares better with print books sometimes), but I did enjoy the storytelling--lots of mini-fairytales/ghost stories spun within the narratives of the tragic lives of these discarded young women--Pearl the ghost cannot change her unfortunate past, but the reader can hope that Frankie may at least escape from some of the harm that Pearl and other women frequently suffered in those days (