![]() ![]() She goes from someone who keeps everything locked up inside of her to someone who learns to let go and make friends. But I love the depth of Lock and Key and the way that Ruby really grows and flourishes. ![]() It deals with issues of substance abuse, abusive and toxic parents, and abandonment. ![]() This is probably one of the darker of Dessen’s novels. But Ruby still refuses to put down roots until she learns the truth about her past with her mother and sister. She makes friends with the boy next door, Nate, who ends up having his own secrets as well. Once she starts living at Cora’s house (temporarily, as she keeps on insisting), she has a hard time adjusting to the life of privilege and ease her sister and her husband keep throwing at her. She’s sent to protective services before finally getting sent to live with the sister she hasn’t seen in years and whom she thought abandoned her. Ruby has been living in an old farmhouse for several days without her mother, when her landlord discovers her. ![]()
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