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Way Down Deep
ALAN Review, Summer 2007 by Kienholz, Kevin
Way Down Deep by Ruth White Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007, 208 pp., $16.00 Mystery ISBN-13: 978-0-374-38251-3
Abandoned as a little girl in 1944 in the Appalachian town of Way Down Deep, West Virginia, Ruby June finds love and acceptance among the townsfolk. However, she remains haunted by the fact that her own origins remain a mystery. The pace of this often funny story quickens when she finds out that the truth behind her family history will soon be revealed. And although she must taste some "bitter berries" along the way, she eventually comes to an understanding of who she was before arriving in Way Down Deep and who she is becoming, all just in time for her thirteenth birthday.
Readers will enjoy making the acquaintance of the kindly, somewhat eccentric citizens of Way Down (as the locals call it), while the story of Ruby June prompts them to consider issues such as kindness, belonging, and the meaning of family.
Kevin Kienholz
Emporia, KS
Copyright Assembly on Literature for Adolescents -- National Council of Teachers of English Summer 2007
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