The Ruby Notebook (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780375845253)

Sixteen-year-old Zeeta and her flighty English-teaching mom, Layla, have traveled the world together, settling in a different country every year, making a whole new set of friends and adopting new customs. This year, they've chosen to live in Aix-en-Provence, France, an enchanting city full of fountains, creamy yellow light, and a fascinating group of scarlet-clad street performers.
Zeeta soon begins to receive mysterious notes and gifts from someone she calls her fant me, or ghost, admirer. But she is expecting her boyfriend, Wendell--the love of her life, as her friends call him--to arrive in Aix for a summer program very soon. Zeeta brushes off her curiosity about her fant me, and her simmering attraction to one of the street performers, Jean-Claude, until Wendell arrives and she begins to fear that her feelings for him have truly changed. Perhaps--like Layla--she's simply not made for long-term romance.
As Zeeta tries to draw away from Wendell, however, circumstances seem to force them together. Zeeta's friendship with a local antiques dealer and his reclusive artist friend leads to a dangerous adventure. When Zeeta and Wendell join forces to find a secret underground spring whose water is rumored to bring immortality, they are forced to reconsider their own desires, and their beliefs about true love. Yet as soon as Zeeta decides that her mind has cleared, she's confronted with the biggest shock of her life: the incredible true identity of her fant me.
Vibrant, warmhearted, and evocative, The Ruby Notebook is a remarkable novel about learning to accept love in all of its wondrous and imperfect forms.

Author: Laura Resau
ISBN-10: 0375845259
ISBN-13: 9780375845253
Publisher: Rh Childrens Books
Language: English
Published: 01/10/2012
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.70w x 1.00d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 4.6
Point Value: 12
Interest Level: Middle Grade Plus
Quiz #/Name: 139550 / Ruby Notebook