The two decide to foster children, and they adopt Dallas and Florida. Outside of Boxton, on a plot of land called Ruby Holler, Tiller and Sairy Morey, a very old couple whose children have grown up and moved away, are discussing their plans for a new adventure. Because of this, they have been named the 'trouble twins.' They have a plan to run away and take a train to a destination far from Boxton. Over the years, the twins have been adopted many times and quickly returned to their Home. An imaginative thirteen-year-old boy named Dallas and his sassy and bold twin sister Florida have been living in the Home for a long time, often punished for breaking rules that the Trepids post all over the house. The story starts in the Boxton Creek Home, an 'orphanage' run by the Trepids - a strict and dishonest husband and wife.

Creech was the first American winner of the British award and the first person to win both the American Newbery Medal ( Walk Two Moons, 1994) and the British Carnegie. In a retrospective citation, the librarians call it 'a beautifully written story about love and trust and how the strength and goodness of human beings can overcome all the odds'. Ĭreech won the annual Carnegie Medal from the British librarians, recognizing the year's best children's book published in the U.K. It features adolescent orphan twins who are 'trouble' and an eccentric older couple who adopt them and take them back to live in 'magical' Ruby Holler (hollow). Ruby Holler (2002) is a low fantasy novel for children by the American writer Sharon Creech, published by HarperCollins in 2002.

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