Download or read book Ruby on the Outside written by Nora Raleigh Baskin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-06-14 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eleven-year-old Ruby Danes has a real best friend for the first time ever, but agonizes over whether or not to tell her a secret she has never shared with anyone--that her mother has been in prison since Ruby was five--and over whether to express her anger to her mother.