# The One and Only Ruby

**Author:** Katherine Applegate
**Grade range:** Grades 2–5
**Age range:** 7–11
**First published:** 2023
**Page count:** 215
**Genre:** Middle Grade Fiction
**ISBN-13:** `9780063080102`
**ISBN-10:** `0063080109`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/the-one-and-only-ruby
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

A companion to the Newbery-winning The One and Only Ivan, told by Ruby the elephant. As a special ceremony approaches, Ruby looks back on her early life and the people and animals who shaped her. Katherine Applegate writes about family, memory, and belonging. A recent winner of the Garden State Children's Book Award (grades 2-5), the New Jersey Library Association's statewide children's-choice award — children across NJ read the nominees and vote for their favorites.

## Themes

- animals
- family
- memory
- belonging

## Where this book is assigned

### Garden State Children's Book Award

- **recommended** · 2nd grade · New Jersey — [source: New Jersey Library Association — Garden State Children's Book Award selections (statewide children's-choice program; students vote, since 1977)](https://njla.org/garden-state-childrens-book-award)
- **recommended** · 3rd grade · New Jersey — [source: New Jersey Library Association — Garden State Children's Book Award selections (statewide children's-choice program; students vote, since 1977)](https://njla.org/garden-state-childrens-book-award)
- **recommended** · 4th grade · New Jersey — [source: New Jersey Library Association — Garden State Children's Book Award selections (statewide children's-choice program; students vote, since 1977)](https://njla.org/garden-state-childrens-book-award)
- **recommended** · 5th grade · New Jersey — [source: New Jersey Library Association — Garden State Children's Book Award selections (statewide children's-choice program; students vote, since 1977)](https://njla.org/garden-state-childrens-book-award)

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