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Keywords

acceptance, accomplishment, ambition, appreciation, art, asian, assertiveness, beliefs, change, china, chinese, conflict, conflict resolution, courage, culture, customs, decision making, dedication, depression, determination, disappointment, emotions, encouragement, equality, excitement, family, frustration, generations, giving, goal setting, grandparents, happiness, independence, individuality, intelligence, kindness, language, learning, listening, new year, nonverbal communication, obedience, parade, patience, persistence, poetry, prevention, progress, reading, recognition, refusal skills, relationship, relief, resentment, resolution, role model, school, self confidence, self esteem, skills, stress management, support, symbols, sympathy, teaching, traditions, understanding, verbal communication, wealth, wish, writing

Title

Ruby's wish

Description

Ruby is known for wearing red and being an exceptionally bright student. Even during a time in China when ...most girls were never taught to read and write. However, Ruby's grandfather hires a teacher to come to the house, making it possible for any grandchild living in the house to learn. This initiates a desire in Ruby to attend university, a place that women in China were not encouraged to go.\r\n*Based on a true story of the author's grandmother.

Author

Bridges, Shirin Yim

Publisher

Chronicle Books

Illustrator

Blackall, Sophie

ISBN

0-8118-3490-5

City of Publication

San Francisco

Year of Publication

2002

Author of Abstract

Abstract provided by Heather Tussey, 2005

Citation

Bridges, Shirin Yim, “Ruby's wish,” Children's Picture Book Database at Miami University, accessed September 24, 2023, https://dlp.lib.miamioh.edu/picturebook/items/show/13911.