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Summary: Ruby Holler
Review: Ruby Holler is an awesome book! When you first pick this book up and look at the number of chapters, you get a disgusted look on your face. As you go along, you find the chapters aren't so bad after all.
One thing that I like is that the author, Sharon Creech, really describes the characters in detailed length here are more than enough details to paint a picture.
Sharon Creech comes up with a creative thing that a couple of the characters do. You wouldn't normally think of someone doing something like the characters do.
Another thing is that the characters are all related somehow. One, not really a main character, deals with most of the minor and major characters. In turn, the other minor characters are linked in some way to the main characters. It's fascinating in the way you have to piece together everything.
This book gives you a different angle on someone's life as an orphan. It gives you an inside look at how things really go for a pair of "trouble twins" and how an elderly couple can change them completely. At first, the twins are afraid that living with the couple will be just like living in every other house they have been to. When the twins discover the fact that Tiller and Sairy are different, they change their ways and come to like living with Tiller and Sairy.
In the book it describes a different upbringing of the "trouble twins" than what someone might be used to. When Tiller and Sairy cook for the twins with the twins, they are told that they don't have to cook just for the twins. There are a lot of things that the twins haven't done or seen that they experience while at Tiller and Sairy's house.
One other good part to this book is a secret or two that have been kept. I'll let you discover those for yourself. Enjoy the reading!!!
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Summary: Ruby Holler
Review: Ruby Holler is an excellent book. I liked it because there is suspense and funny points. It was fun to read about how troublesome the twins, Dallas and Florida, are and how different foster families managed them. I have read other novels by Sharon Creech and I personally think that this is one of her best books ever. I recommend this book to people who like adventure and a bit of mystery.
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Summary: Ruby Rocks
Review: Ruby Holler is hilorios. Im not gonna' give you ...on what its about but I highly recomend it. Its a heck of a lot better than Blue Eyes Better.( Don't read it, it ...)I give it a 100 out of 100
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Summary: Ruby Holler- Erica Testerman
Review: Ruby Holler was a CILIP Carnegie Medal Winner in 2002. It is a realistic fiction novel about two twin orphans, Dallas and Florida Carter who live at the Boxton Creek Home. In the beginning of the novel, the story discusses about the foster homes that Dallas and Florida lived in, and about the twins living at Sairy and Tiller's cabin in Ruby Holler. This is an amazing story of the conditions in which Dallas and Florida live in such as living in cobwebbed cellars, snake-pits, having to dig wells, and the horrible abusive situations they endured in the Boxton Creek Home. Then a couple who are both sixty years old, Sairy and Tiller come to Boxton Creek Home looking for two young people to take along on separate journey's, one to Kangdoon bird hunting (Sairy and Dallas) and the other to Rutabago River (Tiller and Florida). However, they take a journey of finding out that there are actually wonderful foster parents in the world. Dallas and Florida save Tiller and themselves by rescuing Tiller from under a boat because of Dallas and Sairy showing up to take Tiller to the hospital along with Mr.Z. In the end, Dallas and Florida find happiness, meaning, worth, and love and stay with Sairy and Tiller in Ruby Holler. When they awake to the smell of bacon from where Sairy and Tiller are cooking from following Dallas and Florida from another un-successful runaway attempt to catch the midnight train. At first when I read this book I felt sad and angry at the beginning because Dallas and Florida were treated so badly at the Boxton Creek Home and by the Hopper's, the Drepp's, and the other hideous foster parents they had throughout the novel. But, when Sairy and Tiller got them I was so happy and excited. I loved this book, especially the happy ending! This story also explains orphanages, foster homes, and abuse that children might have to go through and how one good experience can help remove bad things and make them better at least physically. Sharon Creech is a wonderful author that writes about events that could happen in real life situations and how to overcome them. I would recommend Ruby Holler and any of Sharon Creech's books to anyone!
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Summary: Creech has done it again!!
Review: Ruby Holler was a great book. You end up feeling so close to the main characters Florida and Dallas. Creech is so good at describing her character's experiences and emotions, making the reader feels so fond of them. I love how she writes about relationships with a little bit of drama, mystery and humor thrown in.
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Summary: Ruby Holler
Review: Ruby Holler
Sharon Creech Dallas and Florida have been together since they were found on the steps of Mr. and Ms. Trepids orphanage. The girl, Florida is a rebel she will not do any thing the Trepids say. The boy Dallas is a quite and peaceful who also likes nature. One day a couple named Tiller and Sairy go to the Trepids orphanage, and see Dallas and Florida they decide that they want to adopt them. So the next day the twins go home with Tilller and Sairy. When they get there the twins are amazed, the warm little house in the country is so different from the cold orphanage they are used to. I really liked this book because I have read all the other books by this author and really liked them so it was no surprised after I read it that this was a very good book. I also liked it because the way the author uses detail in explaining the characters, and by the end of the book you feel like you really know. I would really recommend this book to people who are fans of Sharon Creech.
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Summary: Ruby Holler
Review: Ruby Holler This book was written by Sharon Creech. This book is about two abandoned children Dallas and Florida trying to find a home that will accept them. When Dallas and Florida were born their mother left them on the door step of Mr. And Mrs. Trepid who unfortunately owns an orphanage. Dallas and Florida have lived there for a long time and they keep getting adopted but by the end of the week are sent back for misbehavior. Now they are told that they want to be adopted by an old couple named Tiller and Sairy. They arrive and they don't know what adventures they will have at Ruby Holler. This book is a very good book. I would really recommend this book to anybody who likes adventures.
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Summary: Hard to top Walk Two Moons
Review: Sharon Creech did it again! This was a wonderful tale woven with heartache, hope and love. The characters Dallas, Florida, Tiller and Sairy each held their own personality while connecting with each other.
Sharon Creech took two wayward children and hooked them up with two lonely adults. They shared their hearts, time and adventures. Definately two thumbs up!!
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Summary: Not quite satisfying
Review: Sharon Creech is a prolific writer of poignant, quality kids' novels. "Ruby Holler" is not one of her more memorable efforts, however. The plot (told in short, readable chapters) involves some twins who are at a crummy orphanage until they are adopted for the summer by an elderly pair who live a rustic life in the woods. Eventually the two pairs warm each other's hearts, while the orphanage owner plots to steal the old folks' money. My problem with this novel was that it seemed so random at times, going inside the heads of and giving humanity and depth to its villains for no apparent reason, and leaving some important things (like what happens after we find out who the kids'parents are, itself an unlikely twist) unresolved. The inner workings of the characters seem ambivalent at times - is it best for the wife to go off and take a trip by herself or to stay home with her loving husband? I don't know. I don't much care, actually. Nonetheless, this is a pleasant read for those who will root for the kids to find a happy home.
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Summary: Terror Next Door
Review: The book I read is by Sharon Creech. The name of it is Ruby Holler. She is an amazing author that wrote other books such as Love That Dog, Walk Two Moons, The Wanderer, and many more. This was a great book like all the other ones I read of hers.
This story is about two kids called Dallas and Florida. These two mischievous twins are a little out of hand at times but really they just want to have fun. They get sent to this horrible orphanage run by the Trepids. The Trepids are mean, cranky, and old people who love rules. They make Dallas and Florida sit in a thinking corner and have to sit in corners for dinner. The orphans have to eat horrible food and the Trepids make good food for themselves. Things don?t look good though and something good happens, Tiller and Sairy adopt Dallas and Florida. Florida thinks that they are going to be mean to them and wants to hop on a midnight train. Dallas thinks otherwise, he thinks it may not be too bad and that they should wait. Sairy is taking Dallas on vacation with her and Tiller is taking Florida on vacation with him. Something bad happens though, will Tiller survive?
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