One of Those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies
Fifteen-year-old Ruby Milliken leaves her best friend, her boyfriend, her aunt, and her mother's grave in Boston and reluctantly flies to Los Angeles to live with her father, a famous movie star who divorced her mother before Ruby was born.
Fifteen-year-old Ruby Milliken leaves her best friend, her boyfriend, her aunt, and her mother's grave in Boston and reluctantly flies to Los Angeles to live with her father, a famous movie star who divorced her mother before Ruby was born.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780689858208 (0689858205)
Publish date: May 1st 2004
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pages no: 272
Edition language: English
I went into One of Those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies by Sonya Sones biasedly because I’ve read and liked other novels by Sonya Sones before. As far as novels-in-verse go, her books are short, sweet, to the point, and surprisingly thorough in their low page numbers. One of Those Hideous Books...
ehhh ... didn't like it as much as sonya sones's other books. the storyline was okay but it was just so predictable. it didn't feel so realistic either what with all the like "OMG! cameron diaz lives next door to me!!" whaa?? O_o it would've made more sense if the author had just made up a bunch of ...