![]() Ruby in the Sky is a story of the walls we hide behind, and the magic that can happen when we're brave enough to break free. As ugly rumors begin to swirl around the people Ruby loves, she must make a choice: break her silence, or risk losing everything that's come to mean so much to her. ![]() Before long Ahmad and Abigail have become Ruby's friends-and she realizes there is more to their stories than everyone knows. Or when she meets "the Bird Lady," a recluse named Abigail who lives in a ramshackle shed near Ruby's house. ![]() But keeping to herself isn't easy when Ahmad Saleem, a Syrian refugee, decides he's her new best friend. She and her mother won't be staying long in Vermont anyway, and then things can go back to the way they were before everything went wrong. Ruby just wants to stay as silent and invisible as a new moon in the frozen sky. Mali Under the Night Sky, a 2011 Skipping Stones honor book, is the true story of Laotian American artist Malichansouk Kouanchao, whose family was forced by civil war to flee Laos when she was five. And she definitely does not want to make any friends. ![]() ![]() She does not want them to know her mother has been arrested. Her newest middle grade novel, Each of Us a Universe will be published on February 1, 2022. Twelve-year-old Ruby Moon Hayes does not want her new classmates to ask about her father. Jeanne Zulick Ferruolo is the author of A Galaxy of Sea Stars and Ruby in the Sky, which earned two starred reviews and which Booklist called quietly magical. In Jeanne Zulick Ferruolo's heartfelt middle-grade debut about family, friendship, and finding your own identity, Ruby Moon Hayes learns there's more to a person's story than what other people tell. ![]()
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