The End Of The Alphabet.

By Fleur Beale.

Ruby yarrow at the age of fourteen realises for most of her life that she has been treated like a dormat by her brother and family and even strangers.her brother who is really smart and always getting awards at school walks all over ruby and she lets him until she realises what is going on.she ends up standing up for herself and gets herself a job at the local store as a cleaner getting payed hardly anything.seeing as her name is yarrow her name is always last for everything which she hates.she sets herself a goal of learning a little bit of portugeese when babysitting for a little brothers friend,and also because of a school exchange with some portugeese students(she accomplishes this in the end.Ruby has a learning difficulty and is not very proud of it until one day someone confronts her and she finally gets some backbone.

The main chaacters in this book are of ruby herself who has the main role in the book and she has to work with her learning difficulty throughout the book.Another important person who had alot of impact in the book was her brother who was alot smarter than her.her mum was also important as throughout the book she did not really support ruby as she favoured rubys brother because he was more academically smart.

i really enjoyed this book because it showed how a person with a learning diffence does'nt need to be ashamed of it and in the end she learned that it was alot better if she waas more confindent.I also enjoyed it becaused it showed how people can change from having no backbone to getting alot of backbone.all because her friend told her she needed to stand up for herself and until then their friendshiop was over.

by Jess Maxtone