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  • Ruby

    Rosa Guy

    Paperback (Just Us Books, Inc., Oct. 1, 2005)
    Ruby Cathy feels left without friends, without comfort and without love. Then she meets Daphne Duprey, who is "cool, calm, cultured, sophisticated and refined" - everything that Ruby is not. Together, Ruby and Daphne build a relationship that gives each young woman a new understanding of strength, friendship and love.
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  • Ruby

    Rosa Guy

    language (Sankofa Books, Oct. 6, 2005)
    Ruby Cathy feels left without friends, without comfort and without love. Then she meets Daphne Duprey, who is "cool, calm, cultured, sophisticated and refined" - everything that Ruby is not. Together, Ruby and Daphne build a relationship that gives each young woman a new understanding of strength, friendship and love.
  • RUBY

    Rosa Guy

    Mass Market Paperback (Laurel Leaf, Dec. 1, 1991)
    Ruby Cathy -- Eighteen and desperately lonely, she has adjusted from a life in the sun and blue seas of the West Indies to the mean, crowded streets of Harlem. Her mother is dead, and her father is obsessed with the American passion to succeed. Ruby makes the painful transition from girl to woman when she meets the beautiful and bitter Daphne.Daphne Duprey -- She prides herself on always being "cool, calm, collected, poised, sophisticated, cultured, and refined." Ruby is drawn to this girl,who, in Ruby's eyes, is everything she is not. They fill the aching emptiness in each other, love each other, despite the shared knowledge that their happines will end as abruptly as it began.
  • Ruby

    Rosa Guy

    Hardcover (Viking Books for Young Readers, April 26, 1976)
    A lonely West Indian girl in Harlem is driven by grief over her mother's death and the neglect of her ambitious and domineering father to take refuge in the companionship and affection of a strong-willed young black woman
  • Ruby

    Rosa Guy

    Paperback (Bantam, July 5, 1979)
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  • Ruby

    Rosa Guy

    Hardcover (Gollancz, Nov. 1, 1981)
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  • Ruby by Rosa Guy

    Rosa Guy

    Paperback (Just Us Books, Inc., July 6, 1862)
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  • Ruby

    Rosa Guy

    Paperback (Puffin Books, June 26, 1997)
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