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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 gay father, a famous movie star who divorced her mother before Ruby was born. Fathers and daughters. Grief. Stream-of-consciousness free-verse poems make up most of the narrative. AR 5.1. RC 5.3. Lexile 820. GR level NR. | |