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Laura Ruby

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Children's Books, Young Adult, Literature & Fiction

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Raised in the wilds of suburban New Jersey, Laura Ruby now lives in Chicago with her family. Her short fiction for adults has appeared in various literary magazines, including Other Voices, The Florida Review, Sycamore Review and Nimrod. A collection of these stories, I'M NOT JULIA ROBERTS, was published by Warner Books in January 2007. Called "hilarious and heart-wrenching" by People and "a knowing look at the costs and rewards of remaking a family," by the Hartford-Courant, the book was also featured in Redbook, Working Mother , and USA Today among others.

Ruby is also the author of the Edgar-nominated children's mystery LILY'S GHOSTS (8/03), the children's fantasy THE WALL AND THE WING (3/06) and a sequel, THE CHAOS KING (5/07) all from H ...more

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Well. It's finally here. Today is the official release da...

Well. It's finally here. Today is the official release day of my new novel, BONE GAP.

I named my blog "Anger Management" as a bit of a joke, because I find anger so energizing, so motivating—why would I ever want to "manage" it? Anger is what prompts me to write. But anger didn't motivate me to wrote BONE GAP. I wrote it because I was tired of being angry. I wrote it to find my way back to wha... Read more of this blog post »

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Laura Ruby's Books

Average rating: 3.77 · 20,910 ratings · 3,902 reviews · 13 distinct works · Similar authors

	Bone Gap 3.87 avg rating — 13,691 ratings — published 2015 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Good Girls 3.68 avg rating — 1,917 ratings — published 2006 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Wall and the Wing (Wall and the Wing, #1) 4.03 avg rating — 967 ratings — published 2006 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bad Apple 3.34 avg rating — 857 ratings — published 2009 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lily's Ghosts 3.75 avg rating — 783 ratings — published 2003 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Play Me 3.04 avg rating — 543 ratings — published 2008 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Chaos King (Wall and the Wing, #2) 3.94 avg rating — 326 ratings — published 2007 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	I'm Not Julia Roberts 2.67 avg rating — 177 ratings — published 2007 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Shadow Cipher (York, #1) 4.44 avg rating — 9 ratings — expected publication 2017 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mo`ili`ili: The Life of a Community 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2005	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Laura Ruby

Wall and the Wing (2 books)
by Laura Ruby
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York (1 book)
by Laura Ruby
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Quotes by Laura Ruby

“People look, they don't see.”
― Laura Ruby, Bone Gap

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“Funny how you notice how beautiful things are just when you're about to leave them.”
― Laura Ruby, Bone Gap

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“Our moon is the same moon, our sun is the same sun, and the stars will sparkle for us no matter who or where or what erare-- not sluts, not players, just people.”
― Laura Ruby, Good Girls

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Polls

What book would you like to read in June?

These Broken Stars by Amie Kaufman

43 votes, 34.4%

Dorothy Must Die by Danielle Paige

42 votes, 33.6%

Bad Apple by Laura Ruby

8 votes, 6.4%

Numbers by Rachel Ward

7 votes, 5.6%

Saving Zoë by Alyson Noel

6 votes, 4.8%

Muse Unexpected by V.C. Birlidis

6 votes, 4.8%

Sloppy Firsts by Megan McCafferty

5 votes, 4.0%

Magic Under Glass by Jaclyn Dolamore

4 votes, 3.2%

Pirate Curse by Kai Meyer

3 votes, 2.4%

Skin Hunger by Kathleen Duey

1 vote, 0.8%

125 total votes

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