Ruby Holler

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Summary: Ruby Holler
Review: Picture the worst environment you've ever known -- where you felt no love or concern for your well being. Now picture what might seem like paradise -- a place where you can run and scream and grow up while making the mistakes that all kids do. You'd wake up to the smell of bacon and hear the kindly voices of the two old folks who took you both in for the summer. You'd set your hands to learning how to whittle and understand what camping outside is really like. This place you'd be imagining is Ruby Holler, and it seems pretty nice. However, can you (Dallas and your twin sister Florida) trust it? Your plan, should things go downhill as they always do, is to catch the night train. How long will things seem to go well before you two need to abandon this place? Or is there anything happening in this sleepy old place that makes you think you're needed here after all?

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Summary: Twinship Connection
Review: Ruby Holler is an adventurous book about a set of orphan twins who are forced to grow up feeling unloved and unwanted but become strong through the connection they have toward each other. The most enjoyable part about this book is the way that the author Sharon Creech develops the characters Dallas and Florida. She really emphasizes the bond between twins and the connection that they feel toward one another. In the orphanage they have separate rooms and yet find a way to stay close. "Next door, Dallas heard Florida whimpering. He crept to his closet and lifted the cardboard flap covering a hole in the wall. Florida? What's the matter?" She gives a real sense of the attachment the twins feel to one another. The twins know and care about each other so much that they can, at times, predict what the other one is thinking, feeling, and even trouble. "We had better find a town pretty soon," Dallas said. He didn't want to tell Sairy that the awful feeling he'd had about Florida being in trouble was getting stronger." The author gives the reader a very true sense of how strongly twins are connected. There is a real bond there that many people don't understand but I think the author has a gift for portraying the true, yet often incomprehensible, reality of that connection.
I also believe that the author develops Dallas and Florida in a way that would allow any reader to find these characters fun, mischievous, and adventurous. You are joining two children on a quest to find themselves as well as their place in this crazy world.

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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 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: 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: Not Bad!!
Review: This was a great book. Not my fave Sharon Creech book, but quite good all the same. It is about twins Dallas and Florida. They are nicknamed the trouble twins. They have been booted from tons of foster homes. The Home they live in now is not a good one.

But then daydreaming Dallas and forceful, crabby Florida get sent to yet another foster home. They try not to get too close to the old couple, but they realize that they like living there in Ruby Holler.

Through trips with the couple, the twins reach into their hearts and spill the feelings that have been welling up inside them.
Not a bad book. I've read better, but still very good.