Ruby Lavender and Miss Eula are a pretty good team, for a couple of
chicken thieves. What other granddaughter-grandmother duo could
successfully drive the getaway car for chickens rescued from a journey
to the slaughterhouse, paint a whole house shocking pink, and operate
their own personal secret-letter post office?
So, when Miss Eula leaves for Hawaii to visit her new grandbaby, Ruby is
sure that she will have a lonely, empty, horrible summer in boring old
Halleluia, Mississippi. What happens instead? She makes a new friend,
saves the school play, writes plenty of letters to her favorite (and
only) grandmother . . . and finally learns to stop blaming herself for
her grandfather's death. Not too bad, for a nine-year-old.