Readers who stay with it will find thoughtful and authentically inspiring messages about trusting in themselves enough to insist on a love that means more than being someone's "honey, baby, sweetheart." Ages 12-up.Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 17:36:02 Boxid IA160812 Boxid_2 CH120121031-BL1 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Donor Even so, so much here is uncommonly vivid, especially the exchanges among Ruby, her mother and her younger brother.
There is a lot of plot, often requiring the audience's leaps of faith over not especially believable moments, and Caletti's prose, laden with strikingly apt comparisons, can make this book feel dense. In a concerted effort to help Ruby break away from Travis, her librarian mother, who has just endured a betrayal of her own, begins overseeing Ruby's schedule and takes her to the book club she facilitates for feisty senior citizens, the Casserole Queens-which leads to a whole other story line involving one of their members, a stroke victim who may or may not have been the lover of a famous author. But he is also dangerous, and spellbound Ruby gradually gets sucked into first reckless and then criminal acts. When Ruby gets involved with handsome, motorcycle-riding and rich Travis, she likes that he sees her as fearless.
the stuff of the books at the Nine Mile Library where my mother works," shares both the strengths and pitfalls of Caletti's The Queen of Everything Ultimately rewarding, this novel about a high school girl who steps out of her role as "The Quiet Girl" for a summer of "passion and adventure.
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