End of the Alphabet, The - Softcover

End of the Alphabet

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. 255 pages. Ruby Yarrow is a 14-year-old who lives in a busy, loving, chaotic family with her mum, stepdad, brother and two little stepbrothers. Ruby feels a bit like a doormat - she has to help out while her brother doesn't. He wins lots of prizes at school but she has a learning difficulty and needs a reader/writer to help he r in exams. What's more, her surname, Yarrow, is at the end of the alphabet and when the roll gets called out she's always at the end. She hates it. She feels s he's always at the end of the line.Not that Ruby is a misery bag at all. She's bright and vibrant. She has great friends and loves clothes, fashion magaz ines and sewing, which she has a real knack for. She's very keen to go on the sc hool trip to Brazil and so she gets a job to earn the money for her airfare, wor king in a supermarket for an old grump. She also learns a bit of Portuguese and meeting exchange students.This book is about having a dream and aiming fo r it. Ruby learns to stand up to her parents, gets some backbone and starts to s ee herself in a much better light. There's even a bit of romance. Artikel-Nr. 5960a

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