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Author: Sonya Sones. Books Read: One Of Those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies who is your audience? Teenagers and young adults. Book Summary: Fifteen year old Ruby Milliken leaves her best friend Lizzie, her boyfriend Ray, her aunt, and her mother's grave in Boston and unwillingly flies to Los Angeles to live with her father, a famous movie star who divorced her mother before Ruby was born. Her mother had just died and Ruby isn't happy at all to be meeting a man who has acted in tons of movies but has yet to find the time to even send her a birthday card. So when she is flown out to L.A., she decides to be as horrible to him as possible to pay him back from him abandoning her. Objective vs. Subjective (Fact vs. Opinion): I absolutely love this book. It’s the perfect story of the many obstacles teenagers face.