Ruby's Wish

By Shirin Yim Bridges

Subjects: grade:min:3, Education, fiction, China, award:Ezra_Jack_Keats_award, 19th century, Children's Books/Ages 4-8 Nonfiction, lexile_range:801-900, age:min:8, lexile:860, Manners and customs, Pictorial works, Sex role, People & Places - United States - Asian American, Girls, fiction, Girls, Education, Fiction, Children's fiction, age:max:12, Social life and customs, grade:max:7, Interactive Adventure, Juvenile fiction, History, People & Places - Asia, Spanish: Grades 2-3, China, fiction, Sex role, fiction, Picture books

Description: In China, at a time when few girls are taught to read or write, Ruby dreams of going to the university with her brothers and male cousins.