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Diamond Ruby
By Wallace, Joseph
Diamond Ruby
"A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" meets "Ragtime," in this novel set in the Roaring 20's about a 17-year-old girl who can out-pitch any major league baseball player.
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- 9781439160053
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Authors:
Wallace, Joseph
Copyright:
2010
Format:
Paperback
GTIN13:
9781439160053
ISBN10:
1439160058
Page Count:
480
Dimensions:
5.58x1.04x7.94
Publisher:
Atria Books
Description
Seventeen-year-old Ruby Thomas, newly responsible for her two young nieces after a devastating tragedy, is determined to keep her family safe in the vast, swirling world of 1920s New York City. She's got street smarts, boundless determination, and one unusual skill: the ability to throw a ball as hard as the greatest pitchers in a baseball-mad city. From Coney Island sideshows to the brand-new Yankee Stadium, Diamond Ruby chronicles the extraordinary life and times of a girl who rises from utter poverty to the kind of renown only the Roaring Twenties can bestow. But her fame comes with a price, and Ruby must escape a deadly web of conspiracy and threats from Prohibition rumrunners, the Ku Klux Klan, and the gangster underworld.
Diamond Ruby "is the exciting tale of a forgotten piece of baseball's heritage, a girl who could throw with the best of them. A real page-turner, based closely on a true story" (Kevin Baker, author of Strivers Row).
Diamond Ruby "is the exciting tale of a forgotten piece of baseball's heritage, a girl who could throw with the best of them. A real page-turner, based closely on a true story" (Kevin Baker, author of Strivers Row).
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