When Laura Ruby got the phone call from the Printz committee this past Sunday, informing her that she had won the 2016 award, she was attending a lecture at Hamline University in St. Paul, where she’s ...

Laura Ruby creates a dark and terrifying alternate world in the ominously titled “Bone Gap,” a novel for young people that deals with serious adult and criminal issues. Finn O’Sullivan and his older ...

InRuby's quirky and compelling fantasy, the standouts are a strange, cat-collecting professor who consults a creepy "answer hand" that he purchased on eBay, and an orphan called Gurl who can turn ...

Printz Award winner Laura Ruby returns with a new Depression-era young adult drama that poses a question: When there are wolves behind all the doors, how do we find the courage to open them anyway?

Laura Ruby, a National Book Award Finalist for YA novels “Bone Gap” and “Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All,” wraps up her thrilling trilogy for middle-grade readers with another intriguing, ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The residents of the real-life Bone Gap, Illinois, get a shout-out in the acknowledgments for the liberties Laura ...

The narrator of Laura Ruby’s THIRTEEN DOORWAYS, WOLVES BEHIND THEM ALL (Balzer + Bray, 359 pp., $17.99; ages 14 and up) is a teenage ghost named Pearl, who warns at the start that the dead never sleep ...