![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The twins are each other’s best and only friends, and they have different and complementary characters. When the story begins they are 13, and living in the Boxton Creek Home for Children, a miserable orphanage run by the short-tempered and greedy Mr and Mrs Tepid. Ruby Holler concerns the adventures of the orphan twins Florida (a girl) and Dallas (a boy), who are named after the tourist pamphlets in the box in which they were abandoned as babies. Satisfyingly scary monsters Ruby Holler by Sharon Creech 320 pp, Bloomsbury Sharon Creech, who won the Newbery Medal (the most important American children’s book award) with Walk Two Moons, is a skilful storyteller, whose books I always read with pleasure. ![]()
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