It's 1931 . . .and Ruby is settling into life at her school in the country. But when a desperately poor family moves to the area, no one wants to be friends with them. Ruby will have to choose sides, and she has already made one enemy at school - Doris Spinks. Will Ruby do what she believes is right? And what does Doris know about Ruby's beloved dad?
Follow Ruby on her adventure in the third of four exciting stories about a happy-go-lucky girl in a time of great change.
Ruby's kind of finding her place at last and getting to be friends with May a bit, but now horrible Doris is implying nasty things about her father, who Ruby hasn't heard from since they moved. Turns out he's not just been trying to find work but has been in jail for embezzlement, which Ruby's mother kept a secret from Ruby.