"Ruby Holler," Sharon Creech, Bloomsbury; 2002, 310 pp. How do you reform a pair of 13-year-old twins who spend every spare moment breaking, spilling, throwing or dropping things -- and cursing loudly ...

Soon a silver bird fluttered down from the sky and sat on his shoulder. "There is a place where you can go, where everything is _ " "Is what?" Dallas said. " _ where everything is magic," the bird ...

Ruby Holler by Sharon Creech 320pp, Bloomsbury, £10.99 Sharon Creech, who won the Newbery Medal (the most important American children's book award) with Walk Two Moons, is a skilful storyteller, whose ...

Ruby Holler by Sharon Creech, (Bloomsbury, £5.99) The first American to win the UK's most prestigious children's fiction award, the Carnegie, and the only author ever to win both the Newbery and ...

The characters introduced here—two abandoned children, their villainous guardians and a kindly country couple—might have stepped out of a Dickens novel, but as Creech (Love that Dog) probes beneath ...