Ruby Holler

This is an okay book written by Sharon Creech. 13-year-old fraternal twins, Dallas and Florida, are planning to escape from the orphanage where they have lived all of their life. They meet Tiller and Sairy, an eccentric elderly couple looking for one last adventure while they are still spry. They take the twins to Ruby Holler, their home in a lush, green valley. The novel won the 2002 Carnegie Medal.