SuitabookRuby Holler
Sharon Creech
- Reading
- Read together at a pace that leaves room to pause on the twins’ changing feelings about home. Invite your child to say which relationships seem important to them, without requiring personal comparisons.
- Themes
- Belonging and a loving home: Dallas and Florida have moved between foster families and orphanages and doubt they can find a loving home. Tiller and Sairy invite them to stay, and the pairs grow closer. The story presents finding love and a home in an unexpected place as a hopeful possibility.
- Worth knowing
- The twins’ history includes being orphaned and moved between foster families and orphanages. This may resonate with readers familiar with separation or uncertainty about where they belong.