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Wallace, Joseph. Diamond Ruby.(Brief article)(Book review)
* Wallace, Joseph. Diamond Ruby. Touchstone: S. & S. May 2010. c.480p. ISBN 978-1-4391-6005-3. pap. $16. F
As a girl, Ruby Thomas faces torment over her unusually long arms. After losing most of her family to the 1918 flu epidemic, a 13-year-old Ruby is determined to protect her two nieces. With little help from her older brother, now a broken man, Ruby uses those long arms, first to kill squirrels to feed the family and then to become part of a carny show throwing fast balls as 17-year-old Diamond Ruby. It's a hard life, and it gets harder when rum runners and gamblers take …
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- Diamond Ruby.(Brief article)(Book review)
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