Ruby Holler

Filled with humor, poignancy, cookies, and treasure maps, Newbery Medal winner Sharon Creech's Ruby Holler is a delightful book about a special place where it's never too late to be loved. Dallas and Florida have been shuffled between foster families and orphanages all their lives, longing only for a loving place to call home. Tiller and Sairy, an eccentric older couple whose children are grown and gone, are restless for one more big adventure in life. Ruby Holler is the beautiful, mysterious place that changes all their lives forever. When Tiller and Sairy invite the twins to stay with them and accompany them on their adventures, the magic of the Holler takes over, and the two kids begin to think that maybe, just maybe the old folks aren't so bad.... Sharon Creech is the author of the Newbery Medal winner Walk Two Moons and the Newbery Honor winner The Wanderer. Her other novels include The Castle Corona, Replay, Heartbeat, Ruby Holler, Love That Dog, Bloomability, Absolutely Normal Chaos, Chasing Redbird, and Pleasing the Ghost, as well as three picture books: A Fine, Fine School; Fishing in the Air; and Who's That Baby? After spending eighteen years teaching and writing in Europe, Sharon Creech and her husband have returned to the United States to live. Donna Murphy, the winner of two TonyAwards and an Emmy, starred on Broadway in The King and I and Passion, and in the films Center Stage and Star Trek: Insurrection. Her television work includes appearances on Murder One, Law & Order, Ally McBeal, Hack, The Practice, and The Education of Max Bickford.