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Laura Ruby is the author of twelve books, including Bone Gap, winner of the 2016 Printz Award[1] and finalist for the 2015 National Book Award.[2]

Bone Gap is a coming-of-age mystery about a kidnapping in a small Midwestern town, and it incorporates elements of mythology and magical realism. The New York Times Book Review called it a "lush and original young adult novel".[3]

In an interview with Publishers Weekly, Ruby characterized her award-winning novel as an "oddball" book that doesn't fit neatly into one genre.[4]

Biography

Ruby grew up in New Jersey, and now lives in the Chicago area.[5]

She is a faculty member at Hamline University in the low-residency MFA program in writing for children and young adults.[6]

She teaches fantasy writing workshops for children's authors at Highlights.[7]

York: The Shadow Cipher (part one of a trilogy for children), was released in May 2017.[8]

Her most recent book, Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All, was named a finalist for the 2019 National Book Award for Young People's Literature.[9]

Published works

• Lily’s Ghosts (2003)
• Everything I Wanted to Know About Being a Girl I Learned from Judy Blume (2006)
• The Wall and the Wing (2006)
• I'm Not Julia Roberts (2007)
• The Chaos King (2007)
• Good Girls (2008)
• Play Me (2008)
• Bad Apple (2009)
• Bone Gap (2015)
• York: The Shadow Cipher (2017)
• York: The Clockwork Ghost (2019)
• Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All (2019)
• York: The Map of Stars (2020)

References

External links

• Official website
• One Thing Leads to Another: An Interview with Laura Ruby

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