Quiet Ruby McQueen meets bad-boy rich kid Travis Becker and her life spins rapidly out of control. “Honey, Baby, Sweetheart” is a funny and poignant look at first love and being a teenager. “Caletti writes a compelling, multigenerational story about teens and parents who simultaneously weather heartbreak and find new self-worth, enriching the telling with the Northwest setting, folksy wisdom, and Ruby’s strong, sure voice.”
‘We cared too much for each other to have between us the recklessness of complete honesty.’ Lovely.”
Listen to Ruby musing on the delicate balance of kindness and truth between mother and daughter. Caletti has the gift of voice and tells her story with humor, insight, and compassion.
In the least inspired part of the tale, the crowd decides to kidnap the incapacitated lady from her controlling daughters and bring the lovers together. One of the members of the book club, an elderly woman recently debilitated by a stroke, turns out to be the real-life love of an author whose book they are studying. To bring Ruby back into the fold, her divorced librarian mother gets her involved in a reading group for the aged. “Tender and poetic, Caletti’s tale of the multifaceted effects of the many kinds of love tells the story of Ruby, who, in an effort to break out of her quiet-girl persona, begins dating an exciting but amoral rich boy. Young adults will see themselves in Ruby and, like her, have some laughs along the road to wisdom. Their hearts will break as she makes bad decision after bad decision, and they’ll cheer as she comes to some important realizations, with the help of the Casserole Queens. “Readers will immediately fall for Ruby with her humor and her wry way of looking at the world. Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award Nominee New York Public Library Best Books for the Teen Age 2005Ĭhicago Public Library Best of the Best Books for 2004ĬCBC (Cooperative Children's Book Council) Choices California Young Reader Medal Finalist 2005/2006
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