Just before the beginning of World War I, eight-year-old Ruthie, who lives with her parents and six brothers on a farm in Indiana, wishes for a sister and tries to behave like the lady her mother wants her to be.
- ISBN10 0440414059
- ISBN13 9780440414056
- Publish Date 12 October 1999 (first published 9 February 1998)
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 13 December 2008
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc
- Imprint Bantam USA
- Format Paperback
- Pages 176
- Language English