Courage can be found when you simply stand up
Twelve-year-old Ruby Moon Hayes does not want her new classmates to ask about her father. She does not want them to know her mother has been arrested.
And she definitely does not want to make any friends. Ruby just wants tostay as silent and invisible as a new moon in the frozen sky. She and her mother wonât be staying long in Vermont anyway, and then things can go back to the way
they were before everything went wrong.
But keeping to herself isnât easy when Ahmad Saleem, a Syrian refugee, decides heâs her new best friend. Or when she meets âthe Bird Lady,â a recluse named Abigail who lives in a ramshackle shed near Rubyâs house. Before long, Ahmad and
Abigail have become Rubyâs friendsâand she realizes there is more to their stories than everyone knows.
As ugly rumors begin to swirl around the people Ruby loves, she must make a choice: break her silence, or risk losing everything thatâs come to mean so much to her. Ruby in the Sky is a story of the walls we hide behind, and the magic that
can happen when weâre brave enough to break free.