Ruby Electric 2004 г 272 стр ISBN 0689871465 инфо 1916i.

Book Description When the lights go dim and you're sitting in the dark with your popcorn -- that's the magic time that Ruby Miller loves best And then the music creeps in, and the lion roars, or maybe the mаняозoon kid goes fishing For Ruby, age twelve and a half, movies are better than real life The ones she writes, why, those are the best of all Those stories work out The dads in her movies always show up when they've promised The moms don't hold on to secrets Theбагйе little brothers don'tcurl up with sorrow over some missing stuffed animal All right, it's Ruby's fault he's missing But the terrible red-painted graffiti on the concrete riverbanks -- it that her fault too? She's blamed for it And here she is on a chain gang with two stupid classmates -- the Dumb and Dumber of the Hayes Middle School -- doing community service to make up for it If she were writing the script, the setup would be intriguing, the middle exciting, and the ending a бнайчcomplete and happy surprise She has seven pages ready for Spielberg But real life keeps interrupting.