Ruby on the Outside
by Nora Raleigh Baskin
Ruby and her aunt visit her mom every week at the Bedford Hills Women’s Correctional... read more
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- Grade
- 4-8
- Genre
- Realistic Fiction
Year Published 2015
Word Count 32,018
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 720L
- ATOS Reading Level: 4.5
- AR Quiz Numbers
- 174506
- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- Subject Headings
- Best friends--Fiction
- Best friends
- Mothers and daughters
- Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Fiction
- Aunts--Fiction
- Mothers and daughters--Fiction
- Prisoners' families
- Aunts
- Juvenile Fiction | Girls & Women
- Prisoners' families--Fiction
- Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | Friendship
- Juvenile Fiction | Family | General (see also headings under Social Themes)
- Friendship--Fiction
- Friendship
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Audio Name Pronunciation with Nora Raleigh Baskin
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Story Map Multi-Leveled Lesson
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About the Author 3
Author Interviews 1
Interview with Nora Raleigh Baskin
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Book Guides, Activities & Lessons 3
Story Map Multi-Leveled Lesson
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Cultural Representation Reflection
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Reading Group Guide from Simon & Schuster
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Awards & Distinctions 2
CCBC Choices
Selection, 2016
Notable Books for a Global Society, 1996-2021
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