Lois Ruby is the author of 18 books for middle graders and teens, including Steal Away Home, Miriam’s Well, The Secret of Laurel Oaks, Rebel Spirits, Skin Deep, and The Doll Graveyard. Her fiction runs the gamut from contemporary to historical and from realistic to paranormal. An ex-librarian, Ruby now writes full-time, in addition to speaking to bookish groups, presenting at writing workshops, and touting literacy and the joys of nourishing, thought-provoking reading in schools across the country. Ruby and her husband live in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in the foothills of the Sandia Mountains.
“A complex novel, one that is hardly ‘skin deep’!” —Booklist
“Ruby portrays skinhead culture and racial hatred with terrifying
clarity in this well-written novel.” —Kirkus Reviews
“Ruby provides an absorbing and disturbing look at skinhead
culture.” —TheHorn Book
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