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One of my favorite books from childhood. I read them in the 6th grade. I wouldn't recommend any younger than that. It does deal with sexuality so parents may want to look into the story to decide whether to let the kiddos read ;)


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RUBY Rosa Guy Books Reviews

Rosa Guy's Ruby is an excellent piece of reading material. I myself have read it several times over and the intensity of the writing pulls the reader right in. The reader is made to understand all of Ruby's frustrations. I thoroughly enjoyed it. This book is a must read.
This book could have been so much better. If only the author didn't rush the ending that way. The relationship in this book between Ruby and Daphne was fasinating and engaging. This book could have been as beautiful and intriguing as Dive by Stacey Donavan. But instead the author took the easy way out. If you want to know how, read the book. But prepare to be disapointed and let down.
The personal is political, and vice versa. In clear and understandable language, Rosa Guy explores questions of race, class, gender, sexuality and what it means to be an activist. Most impressive of all, she does so with what to me seems an amazing amount of subtlety. The characters remain real people, despite the message the book is trying to send.
I first reqd this book when I was fourteen years old. I was enthralled because I suppose I was fairly sheltered and had not read many books about African-Americans in the inner cities, and I was especially naive about lesbian romance. And yet I related to Ruby and her family problems and her love for Daphne. It seemed perfectly natural that she should fall in love with this striking, brilliant girl who fills a huge void in her life. I never thought of them as lesbian per se, I just thought they were young and beautiful and very naturally in love. (Ruby also appears in Rosa Guy's earlier book, "The Friends," which focuses on Ruby's sister, Phylissia, and in that book Ruby has a brief romance with a boy.)
Rosa Guy finds beauty in the grittiest reality. No insipid dilemmas about prom queens and boyfriends; these are people who are struggling to find a sense of self and preserve their dignity and security against the constant shadow of racism, poverty and social upheaval. I have since read everything by Rosa Guy that I could find.
As a native New Yorker, and Harlemite, this book brings back so many fond memories of my growing up in Harlem, New York in the 1980s.

I read this book for the first time when I was sixteen years old. I was in high school and as an only child, I'd often experienced the loneliness that Ruby felt. I immediately identified with her character. Daphne DuPrey is an intriguing character, someone that you would want to know and know about. You learn about Ruby as she learns more about herself and about Daphne as Ruby learns about her.

It is a wonderful coming of age story. Though it deals with a lesbian romance, I don't think it's the primary focus of the book. The fact that it is a same-sex relationship, that is. I think it's more about a young woman coming to terms with who she is as a person and being free to be herself.

I highly recommend it.
My fifteen-year-old daughter is bright, obedient, and appriciative - but I learned an important lesson when I ordered this childhood favorite of mine... "IT IS POSSIBLE FOR A BOOK TO GO OUT OF STYLE OR BECOME OUT-DATED!" My daughter is an avid reader, and she's usually not too picky with her reading materials, but presenting her with this book was like showing the movie 'The Sound of Music' to an atrium full of eigth graders and expecting them to love it. If you want to present your teenage daughter with one of your old favorites, then 'The Outsiders,' or anything by S.E. Hinton would be the route to go - defanately not the Rosa Guy route!
I love Rosa Guy. I perviously read Friends and Edith Jackson but I had trouble finding a copy of Ruby so I ordered this book and it followed the trends of her other two books. I would recommend the series for an older teenage girl. A trilogy of books that mothers and daughters can read simultaneously and discuss afterwards.
One of my favorite books from childhood. I read them in the 6th grade. I wouldn't recommend any younger than that. It does deal with sexuality so parents may want to look into the story to decide whether to let the kiddos read ;)