. . "Children's stories, American." . . "Harlem (New York, N.Y.)" . . "Young adult fiction, American." . . . . . . "Rudy is desperately lonely. Friendless and despised at school and oppressed at home by her bullying and possessive father, she feels worthless and unloved. Then she meets Daphne and their relationship gives her a taste for life and a new strength."@en . . . . . . "Young adult works"@en . . . . . . . "Fiction" . . "Fiction"@en . . . . . . . . "Ruby : a novel"@en . "Ruby : a novel" . . . . . . "Ruby, the youngest daughter in a West Indian family that moves to Harlem, is attracted to self-confident, beautiful, and upwardly mobile Daphne." . "Ruby"@da . "Ruby"@sv . "Ruby"@en . "Ruby" . "Ruby, the youngest daughter in a West Indian family that moves to Harlem, is attracted to self-confident, beautiful, and upwardly mobile Daphne."@en . . . . "Electronic books" . . . . . . . . . "After immigrating to Harlem from the West Indies, 18 year old Ruby builds a friendship with Daphne through which they both learn and grow." . "Juvenile works"@en . "After immigrating to Harlem from the West Indies, 18 year old Ruby builds a friendship with Daphne through which they both learn and grow."@en . . . . . "Young adult fiction"@en . . . . . . "Ruby, daughter of a West Indian restaurant owner in Harlem, fights her loneliness by forming a relationship with the beautiful Daphne."@en . . . "Ruby makes the painful transition from girl to woman when she meets the beautiful and bitter Daphne, who in Ruby's eyes is everything she is not."@en . "Ruby a novel"@en . . . . . . . . . .