Nora Raleigh Baskin

Ruby on the Outside Nora Raleigh Baskin

Marc Notes: Eleven-year-old Ruby Danes has a real best friend for the first time ever, but agonizes over whether or not to tell her a secret she has never shared with anyone--that her mother has been in prison since Ruby was five--and over whether to express her anger to her mother. Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 03/15/2015 (EAN 9781442485037, Hardcover) School Library Journal 04/01/2015 pg. 143 (EAN 9781442485037, Hardcover) Booklist 05/15/2015 pg. 56 (EAN 9781442485037, Hardcover) Contributor Bio:  Baskin, Nora Raleigh Nora Raleigh Baskin has written several novels for middle-grade readers and teens, including Basketball (Or Something Like It), In the Company of Crazies, and her first book, What Every Girl (Except Me) Knows, for which she was chosen as a Publishers Weekly Flying Start. Nora lives with her family in Connecticut.