Books written by Lois Ruby
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Rebel Spirits
Haunted by history.
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The Secret Grave: A Hauntings Novel
Nightshade can be deadly.Hannah and Scooter's sprawling, ramshackle house is named for the lethal plant that grows in the dark woods behind it.
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The Secret Grave: A Hauntings Novel
Hannah believes she has finally found a friend in Cady, but soon Cady is copying Hannah's style to be more like her and begging her to break her parents' rules and venture into the forbidden woods behind Hannah's home.
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Skin Deep
An angry teenager is sucked into a gang of neo-Nazis Dan shows up on his first day at a new school with long blond hair, John Lennon glasses, and a shy grin that makes every girl in the hallway swoon.
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Eddie Whatever
Against his better judgment, he ends up with a volunteering gig at Silver Brook Pavilion retirement home, where the residents call him "Eddie Whatever" rather than worry about remembering his last name.
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Red Menace
As his friends and teammates turn on him and federal agents track his every move, Marty isn't sure what to believe. Is his family really part of a Red Menace working against the United States?
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Red Menace
"During the summer of 1953, thirteen-year-old Marty's parents are suspected of communist sympathies, upending his life and causing him to question what it really means to be a patriotic American"--
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This Old Man
These were the first words I heard Old Man say, in that hummingbird voice of his, and Wing had to translate even that much for me. It was three months more before I ever saw Old Man's face. He might as well have been a towering figment ...
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Shanghai Shadows
A young girl fleeing Hitler takes refuge in Shanghai, where she learns that she must fight to survive Throughout tomboy Ilse’s childhood, her mother has tried to force her to behave like a proper Austrian lady.
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Miriam's Well
... and that reminded me of a joke Adam told me when he realized that my name was the same as Moses's sister. “What did God say when Moses complained of a headache? 'Take two tablets and call me in the morning.'” Typical Adamism.
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The Doll Graveyard: (A Hauntings Novel)
This graveyard hides buried dolls...and buried secrets!
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Pig-Out Inn
... Wichita and NCR . I was thirteen , not quite obese , but far from scrawny . Tacos and fries were my downfall . Momma ... Goodbye Wichita , goodbye hanging around Towne East Square , goodbye air- conditioned apartment , goodbye two years ...
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Steal Away Home
The young woman whose remains Dana discovered was Lizbet Charles, a conductor and former slave. As the scene shifts between Dana’s world and 1856, the story of the families that lived in the house unfolds.
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The Moxie Kid
One Texas summer, eleven-year-old Jonathan Wigget meets an aging con artist, becomes a hometown hero, and tries to figure out who is killing the town's cats.
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Strike: Mother Jones and the Colorado Coal Field War
Mary Harris "Mother" Jones dedicated her life to helping workers organize unions to negotiate, even demand, better wages and working conditions. In the Colorado Coal Field War, did her call to STRIKE! help or harm?
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The Secret of Laurel Oaks
While staying with her family in Louisiana's Laurel Oaks Plantation, purported to be one of the most haunted places in America, thirteen-year-old Lila is contacted by the ghost of a slave girl unjustly convicted of murder.
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The Red Tent
The story of Dinah, a tragic character from the Bible whose great love, a prince, is killed by her brother, leaving her alone and pregnant.