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264 pp.
| Atheneum/Jackson |
June, 2003 |
TradeISBN 0-689-83852-2$$16.95
(2)
4-6
Ruby Miller (future colleague of Steven Spielberg) is caught with a can of spray paint in front of a graffiti-covered wall and sentenced to fifty hours of community service with "the seventh-grade version of Dumb and Dumber." But she has more important things to focus on, such as the truth about her father, whom she's convinced is a top-secret CIA operative. Nelson infuses her cinematic narrative with Ruby's determined idealism.
Reviewer: Kitty Flynn
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
July, 2003