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Brand New School, Brave New Ruby (Ruby And The Booker Boys) (2008)

by Derrick Barnes(Favorite Author)

3.87 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0545017602 (ISBN13: 9780545017602)

languge

English

genre

Humor

publisher

Scholastic Paperbacks

review 1: This is the first of a series focusing on the titular younger sister of the three famous older Booker boys. Ruby heads off to her first day at a new school, a school that the Booker boys attend and have already established themselves as the big men on campus. Ruby struggles through her first day chapter after chapter, but eventually finds her voice and her own way to shine. It's a pretty adorable book, and Ruby is a strong and independent African American female role model. She speaks her mind with respect and witty sass, and disproves the stereotypes about young girls all the while. My four year old loved reading it, and so did I.
review 2: Sweet book about Ruby Booker, a girl starting third grade at a new school. Her three older brothers are the most pop... moreular people at the school, and she wants to make a name for herself rather than be known as their little sister. Ruby has a lot of personality and is a likable character. I was able to identify with her a lot in her worries about starting a new school and her desire to be known as her own person. There was also plenty about her that I did not identify with (her eagerness to sing in front of everyone and her general out-going nature, for example). Overall, I enjoyed reading about her and her first day of third grade.Possible Spoiler Alert:My only real problem with the book was the ending, which involves Ruby being praised for doing something that she really should not have done. She knows she shouldn't have done it, too, and expects to get in trouble. I am never a fan of characters in books getting praised for disobeying the rules. Sure, sometimes rules have to be broken for practical reasons and whatnot (as in Harry Potter, where he has to break rules to save the world), but not in this case. This was just Ruby wanting to show off. She wasn't trying to do anything really bad (it wasn't a prank or intended to hurt anyone), but it still kind of bothered me. less

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