Love, Ruby Lavender /
Deborah Wiles.
- Paperback ed.
- San Diego : Harcourt, 2002, 2001.
- vii, 199 p. ; 22 cm.
"Gulliver Books."
When her quirky grandmother goes to Hawaii for the summer, nine-year-old Ruby learns to survive on her own in Mississippi by writing letters, befriending chickens as well as the new girl in town, and finally coping with her grandfather's death.