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There Are Wolves Beyond These 'Thirteen Doorways' — But Also A Whole World

Laura Ruby's new young adult novel, set just during the Depression, follows a young girl and her sister who are trying to survive a stark orphanage — and attracting the attention of its local ghost.
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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?

Frankie isn't an orphan — her father is very much alive — but she lives with her brother and sister at an orphanage in Chicago. Her father left them there once her mother was gone. She keeps thinking that one day, he'll

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