Lumber Camp Library

              Lumber Camp Library was written by Natalie Kinsey-Warnock, and was illustrated by James Bernardin. It was published in 2002. This book shows me what the power of reading can do to a child.
               Lumber Camp Library is about a girl named Ruby who lives on a lumber camp. Her father, a log-riding lumberjack, makes Ruby go to school. She soon finds she loves school, and loves reading even more. She sets up a school, she was the teacher and her 10 brothers and sisters are the students.  Ruby even taught her father to write his name. She reads the children stories, and while she was at school, the other kids would act out the stories. Then Pa dies while clearing out a log jam. The family moves to town. All the children go to school. Everyone tries to make the best of their new life.
                 My favorite part in Lumber Camp Library is when the family is living in town. One of the lumberjacks, Jim, shows Ruby a ring - an engagement ring.  Ruby knows this means that Jim wanted to marry Ma, and she also knows she can't let that happen. Then Ma got sick. She told Ruby to go to the lumber camp to say that she couldn't do her job. Ruby went. She could not find Jim, so she went to his bunkhouse to leave him a note. While she's there writing the note, she hears a clink. It's the ring. Ruby takes the ring and throws it down a mountainside. She does it for Pa. But will someone find the ring? If it is found, will Ruby come clean? The answers can be found in this book: Lumber Camp Library.