Everything you need to understand or teach One of Those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies by Sonya Sones.
Fifteen-year-old Ruby Miliken has just lost her mother to cancer and is flying from Boston, Massachusetts, to Hollywood, California to meet her movie star father, Whip Logan, for the first time. Ruby is leaving behind her best friend, Lizzie, and boyfriend, Ray, to live with a man she has never met. She is also leaving behind her mother's sister, Aunt Duffy. Aunt Duffy has taken Ruby to the movies to see...