Ruby Holler

by Creech, Sharon

• ISBN13: 9780786254293
• ISBN10: 0786254297
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-06-01
• Publisher: Five Star

Summary

A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year Dallas and Florida are "the trouble twins," shuffled around all their lives, longing for a loving place to call home. Tiller and Sairy are an eccentric older couple restless for one more big adventure. And Ruby Holler is the beautiful, mysterious place that changes all their lives forever. Accelerated Reader® title for ages 8-12.

Author Biography

Sharon Creech is the author of the Newbery Medal winner Walk Two Moons and the Newbery Honor winner The Wanderer. Her other novels include Love that Dog, Bloomability, Absolutely Normal Chaos, Chasing Redbird, and Pleasing the Ghost. She is also the author of two picture books, A Fine, Fine School and Fishing in the Air. After spending eighteen years teaching and writing in Europe, Sharon Creech and her husband have returned to the United States to live

Table of Contents

The Silver Bird	11	(2)
The Boxton Creek Home	13	(7)
Ruby Holler	20	(2)
Mush	22	(6)
Thinking Corners	28	(4)
The Opportunity	32	(5)
Doubts	37	(3)
Hansel and Gretel	40	(7)
The God	47	(2)
The Egg	49	(4)
The Grump	53	(2)
Work	55	(4)
Gravy	59	(12)
Wood	71	(5)
Conversations in the Night	76	(7)
The Axe	83	(5)
The Rocker	88	(3)
The Trepids	91	(5)
Understone Funds	96	(5)
Through the Holler	101	(3)
Lost and Found	104	(6)
A Trip to Boxton	110	(7)
Ready	117	(6)
Tiller and Sairy	123	(5)
The Holler at Night	128	(11)
Shack Talk	139	(3)
Trials	142	(8)
Mrs. Trepid	150	(4)
Decisions	154	(4)
Nightmares	158	(2)
Medicine	160	(3)
Paddling and Hiking	163	(6)
Z's Report	169	(5)
Bearings	174	(4)
Stiff	178	(3)
A Long Chain	181	(3)
Word Pictures	184	(2)
Surveying	186	(2)
The Worrywarts	188	(6)
Babies in the Box	194	(5)
Shopping	199	(5)
Dorkhead	204	(2)
Loops	206	(4)
Progress	210	(2)
The Rock	212	(2)
Stones in the Holler	214	(2)
Running	216	(1)
More Shopping	217	(6)
Underwater	223	(2)
The Feeling	225	(6)
Z	231	(4)
The One-Log Raft	235	(2)
The Dunces	237	(4)
Slow Motion	241	(2)
On the Road	243	(4)
On the River	247	(4)
The Soggy Heart	251	(2)
Preparations	253	(3)
Investments	256	(3)
Hospital Talk	259	(4)
Mr. Trepid's Adventure	263	(4)
Jewels	267	(3)
Mission-Accomplished Cake	270	(3)
Appraisals	273	(4)
Conversations in the Night	277	(8)
Dreams	285