Meet Ruby (Our Australian Girl) - Softcover

Matthews, Penny

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0143307428 ISBN 13: 9780143307426

Publisher: Puffin Au, 2013

Synopsis

It's 1930 . . . and Ruby Quinlan lives in a big house in Adelaide with her parents and her fox terrier, Baxter. As she gets ready for her 12th birthday party, Ruby has never been happier. But the world she knows is collapsing, and people everywhere are losing their jobs and their homes. Soon Ruby's comfortable life falls apart in ways she could never have imagined . . . Meet Ruby and join her adventure in the first of four stories about a happy-go-lucky girl in a time of great change.

About this title

About the Author

Penny Matthews is a freelance writer and editor based in Adelaide. Her picture books include Little Red Bear, Pudding and Chips, and A Year On Our Farm, which was the CBCA's 2003 Book of the Year (Early Childhood) and a CBCA Honour Book in the Picture Book of the Year category. In 2010, Something About Water was joint winner of the Wilderness Society's Environment Award for Children's Literature. A Girl Like Me, her first young adult novel, was also a 2010 CBCA Notable Book and won the Sisters in Crime's 2011 Davitt Award for Young Adult Fiction.

Edition details

• Publisher: Puffin Au
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0143307428
• ISBN 13: 9780143307426
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: Masciullo Lucia
• Number of pages: 132