Ruby Lavender has fun with her grandmother Miss Eula as they rescue chickens, paint a house pink and run their own secret post office.
Not too bad, for a nine-year-old.. and finally learns to stop blaming herself for her grandfather\'s death. . .
What happens instead? She makes a new friend, saves the school play, writes plenty of letters to her favorite (and only) grandmother .
What other granddaughter-grandmother duo could successfully drive the getaway car for chickens rescued from a journey to the slaughterhouse, paint a whole house shocking pink, and operate their own personal secret-letter post office? So, when Miss Eula leaves for Hawaii to visit her new grandbaby, Ruby is sure that she will have a lonely, empty, horrible summer in boring old Halleluia, Mississippi.
But what can Ruby dowhen Eula goes away? Ruby Lavender and Miss Eula are a pretty good team, for a couple of chicken thieves.
Ruby Lavender has fun with her grandmother Miss Eula as they rescue chickens, paint a house pink and run their own secret post office