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End of the alphabet / Fleur Beale.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Auckland [N.Z.] : Random House, 2009.Description: 255 pagesContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781869790707
Other title:
  • The end of the alphabet
Subject(s):
Contents:
Novel for young adults.
Awards:
  • New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards 2010 Finalist.
Summary: Ruby Yarrow is 14 and she's a good girl who helps out alot around the house with cooking and looking after the little ones. Ruby's best friend Tia tells her to stop being a doormat which gets Ruby thinking. How do you stop being a doormat and start standing up for yourself? Ruby can't even get her own bedroom, so why does she think she could get accepted for a school trip to Brazil? But Tia has made her start thinking and things will never be the same again for Ruby or her family. Suggested level: secondary.
Holdings
Item type Current library Collection Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Teenage Fiction Davis (Central) Library Teenage Fiction Teenage Fiction BEA 2 Available T00499821
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

In this coming-of-age novel by the award-winning YA author Fleur Beale, Ruby is about to discover that she has more backbone than she ever knew . . .


Ruby Yarrow is 14 and she's the good girl who helps her mum. She cooks, she looks after the little ones and she would rather do all the work herself than make her brother Max help as he's meant to. That's okay with Ruby because she knows her mum loves her and relies on her. But it's not okay with Ruby's best friend Tia. 'You know what, Ruby Yarrow,' Tia yells, 'I'm not talking to you until you stop being a doormat.'

That gets to Ruby. But how do you stop being a doormat? How do you get some backbone and start standing up for yourself? She can't even get her own bedroom, so why does she think she could get accepted for the school trip to Brazil?

But Tia has made her start thinking - and things will never be the same again for Ruby. Or her family.

Novel for young adults.

Ruby Yarrow is 14 and she's a good girl who helps out alot around the house with cooking and looking after the little ones. Ruby's best friend Tia tells her to stop being a doormat which gets Ruby thinking. How do you stop being a doormat and start standing up for yourself? Ruby can't even get her own bedroom, so why does she think she could get accepted for a school trip to Brazil? But Tia has made her start thinking and things will never be the same again for Ruby or her family. Suggested level: secondary.

New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards 2010 Finalist.

New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards Finalist - 2010

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