A Heart for Ruby (Walker Stories)
A Heart for Ruby (Walker Stories) بقلم FRANZESKA G EWART ... Ruby's class will be performing in the school Valentine's Day concert on Friday, but there's just one problem - Ruby can't dance. Try as she might, she just can't make herself lighter than air like everyone else. She always comes down with a thump! Auntie Pooja tells Ruby a story about how once, when she was at a party, she danced so hard that one of her favourite ruby heart earrings flew off, and she never found it. Now she lends Ruby the remaining one for luck and Ruby is delighted. But she wishes she had the other one too - if only she could wear both earrings at the concert, she's sure it will go like magic. Can she find the second ruby before Friday, and will it help her to soar?Please ask if you need a specific version. The data provided here may not be correct. With buying and not asking you are accepting the book as is.
Author
![FRANZESKA G EWART]()
Franzeska G Ewart
Franzeska G Ewart is a children’s author originally from Stranraer. She studied medicine at Glasgow University, but switched courses and graduated with a degree in Zoology. She then studied teaching, and worked as a primary school teacher in Glasgow. Ewart has also spent some time in Pakistan, teaching at Karachi Grammar School. She often uses shadow puppetry to help children express themselves, and has written several books on shadow puppets.
Franzeska Ewart’s first novel was Columbine, published in 1995, and since then she has written over 20 novels for children. Her most recent novels include Fire Mask – written with the help of Midlothian school children – and There’s a Hamster in my Pocket, published in 2011. Ewart says that she always draws the characters in her books before writing the novel.
Franzeska Ewart now lives in Lochwinnoch in Renfrewshire with her partner, also a writer, and her cats. In 2009 she became the Royal Literary Fund Writing Fellow in the University of the West of Scotland’s Ayr campus