Ruby Parker Hits the Small Time

By Rowan Coleman

Subjects: Fame, Family problems, Actors and actresses, Soap operas, Families, Self-perception, Television soap operas, Family, Actors and actresses, fiction, Interpersonal relations, Fiction, Children's fiction, Actors and actresses -- Juvenile fiction, Juvenile fiction, Actors

Description: Thirteen-year-old Ruby feels her life is over when she learns that her parents are splitting up at the same time she is hearing rumors that she will be fired soon from the television soap opera she has worked on since age six.