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Meet Ruby - (Our Australian Girl) by Penny Matthews (Paperback)

Meet Ruby - (Our Australian Girl) by  Penny Matthews (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>It's 1930 . . . and Ruby Quinlan lives in a big house in Adelaide with her parents and her fox terrier, Baxter. As she gets ready for her 12th birthday party, Ruby has never been happier. But the world she knows is collapsing, and people everywhere are losing their jobs and their homes. Soon Ruby's comfortable life falls apart in ways she could never have imagined . . . Meet Ruby and join her adventure in the first of four stories about a happy-go-lucky girl in a time of great change.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Penny Matthews </b>is a freelance writer and editor based in Adelaide. Her picture books include <i>Little Red Bear</i>, <i>Pudding and Chips</i>, and<i> A Year On Our Farm</i>, which was the CBCA's 2003 Book of the Year (Early Childhood) and a CBCA Honour Book in the Picture Book of the Year category. In 2010, <i>Something About Water </i>was joint winner of the Wilderness Society's Environment Award for Children's Literature. <i>A Girl Like Me</i>, her first young adult novel, was also a 2010 CBCA Notable Book and won the Sisters in Crime's 2011 Davitt Award for Young Adult Fiction.

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