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Summary: GOOD BOOK
Review: Okay, so I read this book right before 6th grade and I liked it and all, but its no "Walk Two Moons". Of course, after reading "Walk Two Moons" I set really high expectations for Sharon Creech novels not realizing how difficult it would be for anything except JK Rowling, Wendelin Van Draanen, and Meg Cabot to reach, but hey, I'm human - I make these mistakes all the time. Anyway, I really enjoyed this book and reccomend it to any Sharon Creech fan although I must warn you its not written in quite the same way as, "Chasing Redbird" "Walk Two Moons" "The Wanderer" or "Absolutely Normal Chaos" with the 1st person story. Its a little different. You'll like it just the same though.
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Summary: A Little Too Fluffy...
Review: Orphaned twins Florida and Dallas are known as troublemakers and stuck in a children's home controlled by monster-like adults. After years of waiting, Sairy and Tiller, a wonderfully kind couple older couple, adopt them. Florida and Dallas think of running away, but...Need I say more? This book isn't really bad, it's just a little too cutesy and way too predictable. I think a book should take you on journey, make you think, and leave you wondering about some things. From the moment I picked up on all the details of this book's setting, I knew pretty much exactly what was going to happen. Basically, "Ruby Holler" follows the good ol' "happily ever after" formula a little too closely. The best things about Sharon Creech's most recent offering are the characters. Florida's constant expression of "putrid" will always coax a smile from you, and Dallas has some good moments, too. Sairy and Tiller bring a measure of "grandparently" comfort to the story, and their (especially Sairy's) musings about life and enlightening stories about her experiences are glimmers of Creech at her best. "Ruby Holler" would no doubt be enjoyed by a middle- to upper-elementary audience, but it certainly isn't the author's best work.
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Summary: Great Book for adventurous readers
Review: Picture the worst environment you've ever known -- where you felt no love or concern for your well being. Now picture what might seem like paradise -- a place where you can run and scream and grow up while making the mistakes that all kids do. You'd wake up to the smell of bacon and hear the kindly voices of the two old folks who took you both in for the summer. You'd set your hands to learning how to whittle and understand what camping outside is really like. This place you'd be imagining is Ruby Holler, and it seems pretty nice. However, can you (Dallas and your twin sister Florida) trust it? Your plan, should things go downhill as they always do, is to catch the night train. How long will things seem to go well before you two need to abandon this place? Or is there anything happening in this sleepy old place that makes you think you're needed here after all?
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Summary: GOOD BOOK!!!
Review: Ruby Holler is a book about 13 year old twins that are called "The Troubled Twins." They live with these mean foster parents, "The Trepids." They get slapped and put in the celler. Every couple they go with, they come right back! One day this sweet 60 year couple come and want to take these kids on a trip! But they would have to be seperated. They have never been seperated. They deceided to go. Ruby Holler is this magical little town where the couple lives! The couple tell stories to the twins about there children! This person was watching over the couples house for a while, when he found this paper telling about the twins! Could the kids be his? This is a great book but left me hanging at the end. If you like sad stories, little mystry, and adventrous books then I'd recamend this book.
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Summary: Ruby Holler
Review: Ruby Holler is a great book and I think it's one of the best books I read so far.Ruby Holler is about two twins a girl named Florida and a boy named Dallas.These two are trying to get on a night train and it's really interesting how Dallas and Florida try to accomplish this adventure.If you want to find out if Dallas and Florida accomplish their adventure and get on the night train you will have to read the book.So stop whatever your doing now and go to the library because Ruby Holler is waiting for you.
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Summary: Ruby Holler
Review: Ruby Holler is a very adventurous book by Sharon Creech and is about two orphins, Dallas and Florida, brother and sister and their lives at Ruby Holler. I heard about this book from freinds, but what really made me read it is how much Dallas and Florida care for each other like at the Boxton Creek home for Orphins were Dallas was really sick with a fever, Floria was there day and night. So if you're a young reader and like sad, yet funny, books I recommend Ruby Holler for you.
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Summary: Ruby Holler
Review: Ruby Holler is a very good book for people looking for a mixed story. It has the essentials for people who would like to read a great book! I suggest reading any of Sharon Creechs books!
Please read LOVE THAT DOG!!
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Summary: Ruby Holler
Review: Ruby holler is about two twins how were left on the door step
of a adopion place and when they were adopted by this old coupil
they think it is going to be like all the homes they gone to before but its not becuse the people love them.
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Summary: Twinship Connection
Review: Ruby Holler is an adventurous book about a set of orphan twins who are forced to grow up feeling unloved and unwanted but become strong through the connection they have toward each other. The most enjoyable part about this book is the way that the author Sharon Creech develops the characters Dallas and Florida. She really emphasizes the bond between twins and the connection that they feel toward one another. In the orphanage they have separate rooms and yet find a way to stay close. "Next door, Dallas heard Florida whimpering. He crept to his closet and lifted the cardboard flap covering a hole in the wall. Florida? What's the matter?" She gives a real sense of the attachment the twins feel to one another. The twins know and care about each other so much that they can, at times, predict what the other one is thinking, feeling, and even trouble. "We had better find a town pretty soon," Dallas said. He didn't want to tell Sairy that the awful feeling he'd had about Florida being in trouble was getting stronger." The author gives the reader a very true sense of how strongly twins are connected. There is a real bond there that many people don't understand but I think the author has a gift for portraying the true, yet often incomprehensible, reality of that connection.
I also believe that the author develops Dallas and Florida in a way that would allow any reader to find these characters fun, mischievous, and adventurous. You are joining two children on a quest to find themselves as well as their place in this crazy world.
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Summary: I LOVE Ruby Holler!!!!!!!!
Review: Ruby Holler is an amazing story! As soon as I read the first few pages, i was hooked! It has everything a book needs. Sharon Creech is a very good writer. I am now reading Chasing Redbird by Sharon Creech. She is my favorite author. Hopefully this will convince you to read this book because it is an outstanding book.
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