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Praise for Ruby Lee and Me Hitchcock deftly weaves her narrative through history to gently bring important past events to light. Excellently written, the novel's characters avoid stereotyping and are well-developed, and Hitchcock perfectly captures Sarah Beth's voice as she wrestles with big questions. The somber themes of race relations and personal guilt are handled sensitively and with a good dose of flour, courtesy of Sarah Beth's grandmother, and hope for racial healing is offered. A heartening and important offering for younger readers. --Booklist, starred review [A story] about sibling love and self-forgiveness. --Kirkus Reviews Sarah's inner struggles take place against the background of integration in a rural North Carolina community; Hitchcock . . . depicts her guilt, anger, and grief with credibility and the important people in her life in sympathetic, fully dimensional fashion. --Publishers Weekly

Praise for Ruby Lee and Me Hitchcock deftly weaves her narrative through history to gently bring important past events to light. Excellently written, the novel's characters avoid stereotyping and are well-developed, and Hitchcock perfectly captures Sarah Beth's voice as she wrestles with big questions. The somber themes of race relations and personal guilt are handled sensitively and with a good dose of flour, courtesy of Sarah Beth's grandmother, and hope for racial healing is offered. A heartening and important offering for younger readers. --Booklist, starred review [A story] about sibling love and self-forgiveness. --Kirkus Reviews Sarah's inner struggles take place against the background of integration in a rural North Carolina community; Hitchcock . . . depicts her guilt, anger, and grief with credibility and the important people in her life in sympathetic, fully dimensional fashion. --Publishers Weekly

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Shannon Hitchcock is the author of the critically acclaimed Ruby Lee & Me and The Ballad of Jesse Pearl, both hailed for their immediacy and cadenced voice. Shannon's picture book biography Overgrown Jack was nominated for the Sue Alexander Most Promising New Work Award. Her writing has been published in Cricket, Highlights for Children, and Children's Writer magazines. She lives in Tampa, Florida.

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