End of the alphabet /
The end of the alphabet
Fleur Beale.
- Auckland [N.Z.] : Random House, 2009.
- 255 pages
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.
9781869790707
Families--Fiction. Teenage girls--Fiction. Self-esteem--Fiction. Young adult fiction, New Zealand Learning disabilities--Juvenile fiction.