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Author:

Sones, Sonya.

Title:

One of those hideous books where the mother dies / Sonya Sones.

Edition:

This Simon & Schuster BFYR pbk. ed.

Publisher:

Simon & Schuster BFYR,

Copyright Date:

2013

Description:

268 p. ; 21 cm.

Subject:

Fathers and daughters--Juvenile fiction.
Moving, Household--Juvenile fiction.
Actors and actresses--Juvenile fiction.
Grief--Juvenile fiction.
Interpersonal relations--Juvenile fiction.
Homosexuality--Juvenile fiction.
Los Angeles (Calif.)--Juvenile fiction.
Fathers and daughters--Fiction.
Moving, Household--Fiction.
Actors and actresses--Fiction.
Grief--Fiction.
Interpersonal relations--Fiction.
Homosexuality--Fiction.
Los Angeles (Calif.)--Fiction.
Father-daughter relationship--Fiction.
Moving--Fiction.
Actors--Fiction.
Grief--Fiction.
Interpersonal relations--Fiction.
Homosexuality--Fiction.
Los Angeles (Calif.)--Fiction.

Summary:

Fifteen-year-old Ruby Milliken leaves her best friend, her boyfriend, her aunt, and her mother's grave in Boston and reluctantly flies to Los Angeles to live with her father, a famous movie star who divorced her mother before Ruby was born.

Indexed by:

Wilson's Senior High School, October 2011
School Library Journal starred, August 2004
Booklist starred, May 2004
Library Media Connection starred, February 2005
Publisher's Weekly, June 2004
Bulletin (Center for Children's books), July 2004
Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), October 2004
Kirkus Review, May 2004
Kliatt Starred, November 2005

ISBN:

1442493836
9781442493834 (pbk.)

Locations:

A2PD787 -- Carter Lake Public Library (Carter Lake)

CEAX572 -- Kirkwood Community College Library (Cedar Rapids)