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Laura Ruby

Raised in the wilds of suburban New Jersey, Laura Ruby now lives in Chicago with her family. Her short fiction for adults has appeared in various literary magazines, including Other Voices, The Florida Review, Sycamore Review and Nimrod. A collection of these stories, I'M NOT JULIA ROBERTS, was published by Warner Books in January 2007. Called "hilarious and heart-wrenching" by People and "a knowing look at the costs and rewards of remaking a family," by the Hartford-Courant, the book was also featured in Redbook, Working Mother , and USA Today among others.

Awards: Printz (2016) see all

Genres: Children's Fiction

New and upcoming books

September 2024

The Ghosts of Dreadsea

Series

Wall and the Wing
   1. The Wall and the Wing (2006)
   2. The Boy Who Could Fly (2007)
   3. The Chaos King (2007)

York
   1. The Shadow Cipher (2017)
   2. The Clockwork Ghost (2019)
   3. The Map of Stars (2020)

Novels

   Lily's Ghosts (2003)
   Good Girls (2006)
   I'm Not Julia Roberts (2007)
   Play Me (2008)
   Bad Apple (2009)
   Bone Gap (2015)
   Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All (2019)
   The Ghosts of Dreadsea (2024)

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Books containing stories by Laura Ruby

All the Love Under the Vast Sky (2025)
edited by
Kip Wilson

Vampires Never Get Old (2020)
(Untold Legends, book 1)
edited by
Zoraida Córdova and Natalie C Parker

Awards

2016 Michael L. Printz Award : Bone Gap

Award nominations

	2016 Andre Norton Award (nominee) : Bone Gap
	2004 Edgar Award for Best Juvenile (nominee) : Lily's Ghosts

Laura Ruby recommends

The Blackwoods (2023)
Brandy Colbert
"Binge-able as the best movies, this epic, beautifully-written tale of one famous Hollywood family is Brandy Colbert at the top of her game. Full of secrets and lies, loss and love, history and destiny, The Blackwoods shines."

Enter the Body (2023)
Joy McCullough
"At once tender, poetic and ferocious, Enter The Body breathes new life into the Bard's most tragic heroines. More than a tribute to Shakespeare, this kaleidoscopic, ambitious novel-in-verse gives Juliet, Ophelia, Cordelia, and Lavinia the chance to tell their own stories full of passion, justice, sisterhood, and love. Simply spectacular."

The Crane Husband (2023)
Kelly Barnhill
"If I had to nominate a worthy successor to Angela Carter, I would nominate Kelly Barnhill. The Crane Husband is a bloody, subversive, and brilliant reimagining of a familiar fairy tale, rendered strange and haunting."

The Second Death of Edie and Violet Bond (2022)
Amanda Glaze
"Amanda Glaze's debut novel is that rarest of things: a vivid historical tinged with magic, a moving story about the bond between two sisters, a tense, romantic thriller, and a prescient, feminist exploration of the courage it takes for women to set themselves free."

The Chandler Legacies (2022)
Abdi Nazemian
"The Chandler Legacies is a heartfelt meditation on the abusive structures that need us to be both oppressed and oppressors, and the found families that help us break ourselves free."

Squad (2021)
Lisa Sterle and Maggie Tokuda-Hall
"People call them all kinds of names—creeps, jerks. But the right word is predator. And that’s who we hunt. Becca wants what every high-schooler does: to have a group of friends, a squad. But Becca’s new friends are more than a clique, they’re a pack, and this pack is hungry. SQUAD is a fast-paced and feminist horror story for every girl who’s ever felt like prey, and asks how far a girl should go to hunt the hunters."

Luck of the Titanic (2021)
Stacey Lee
"With a plot as tense as a walk on a tightrope and a wily heroine you'll cheer on till the very end, Luck of the Titanic is historical fiction at its most thrilling."

Tales from the Hinterland (2021)
(Hazel Wood)
Melissa Albert
"This inventive, enchanting collection reads like the fairy tales of old, hushed stories passed woman to woman, before the Grimms came and wiped away all the blood."

One of the Good Ones (2021)
Maika Moulite and Maritza Moulite
"Thrilling and thrillingly intricate, genre-bending One of the Good Ones investigates intergenerational racial trauma through the eyes of three very different sisters while it testifies to the power of love and hope in spite of it. Astonishing!"

Last Night at the Telegraph Club (2021)
(Last Night at the Telegraph Club)
Malinda Lo
"A sweeping and romantic page-turner, the heart of this rich and ambitious historical novel is a love story that thrums with passion and self-discovery."

Gem & Dixie (2017)
Sara Zarr
"Packed with Zarr's sharp-eyed, honest observations of human nature, GEM & DIXIE gives us two sisters crushed by the failures of their parents, and asks how bad things need to get before you have to make a change. A road-trip like you've never been on before."

A Good Idea (2017)
Cristina Moracho
"Sharp as a fistful of broken glass, dark and twisted as the woods at night, A Good Idea is rural noir at its creepy, literary best."

When the Moon Was Ours (2016)
Anna-Marie McLemore
"Lushly written and surprisingly suspenseful, this magical tale is not just a love story, but a story of the secrets we keep and the lies we tell, and the courage it takes to reveal our authentic selves to each other and to the world."

Assassin's Heart (2016)
(Assassin's Heart, book 1)
Sarah Ahiers
"Love, death, family - and vengeance. This gripping fantasy thriller will keep you turning the pages all night long."

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