School Days for Ruby

It's 1931 . . .and Ruby is settling into life at her school in the country. But when a desperately poor family moves to the area, no one wants to be friends with them. Ruby will have to choose sides, and she has already made one enemy at school - Doris Spinks. Will Ruby do what she believes is right? And what does Doris know about Ruby's beloved dad? Follow Ruby on her adventure in the third of four exciting stories about a happy-go-lucky girl in a time of great change.

Penny Matthews is a freelance writer and editor based in Adelaide. Her picture books include Little Red Bear, Pudding and Chips, and A Year On Our Farm, which was the CBCA's 2003 Book of the Year (Early Childhood) and a CBCA Honour Book in the Picture Book of the Year category. In 2010, Something About Water was joint winner of the Wilderness Society's Environment Award for Children's Literature. A Girl Like Me, her first young adult novel, was also a 2010 CBCA Notable Book and won the Sisters in Crime's 2011 Davitt Award for Young Adult Fiction.