Laura
Ruby

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Laura Ruby is the author of the YA novels Good Girls, a Book Sense Pick and an ALA Quick Pick, Play Me, and Bad Apple (HarperCollins). Her middle grade fiction includes the Edgar-nominated mystery Lily's Ghosts, The Wall and the Wing, optioned by Laika Studios, The Chaos King, and York, the start of a trilogy to be published by Walden Pond Press in Fall 2015.

She teaches at Hamline University's MFA program in Writing for Children and lives in Chicago with her husband and cats.

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Bone Gap marks Laura Ruby as one of fiction's most original voices. The book is magic realism at its most magical.

E. Lockhart
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Laura Ruby earns shortlisting for the National Book Awards 2019
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Laura Ruby's Bone Gap named a White Raven by the International Youth Library
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Bone Gap Nominated for the Andre Norton Award
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Bone Gap by Laura Ruby wins the Michael L. Printz Award
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Bone Gap is a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year!

A haunting and inventive work that subverts expectations at every turn.

Publishers Weekly (starred)
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Lush and original.

Maile Meloy
The New York Times Book Review on Bone Gap

Cleverly conceived and lusciously written

Kirkus Reviews (starred)
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