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Text copyright © 2014 by Anna Humphrey and Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Illustrations copyright © 2014 by Vanessa Brantley Newton
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Book design by Chloë Foglia
Jacket design by Chloë Foglia
Jacket illustrations by Vanessa Brantley Newton
The text for this book is set in Bembo.
The illustrations for this book are rendered in a combination of traditional and digital media.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Humphrey, Anna.
Ruby Goldberg’s bright idea / Anna Humphrey ; illustrations, Vanessa Brantley Newton.—First edition.
pages cm
Summary: Ruby is determined to win the gold with her fifth-grade science fair project, a Rube Goldberg machine to help her grandfather, but the real prize turns out to be something completely unexpected.
ISBN 978-1-4424-8027-8 (hardcover)
ISBN 978-1-4424-8031-5 (eBook)
[1. Science projects—Fiction. 2. Inventions—Fiction. 3. Interpersonal relations—Fiction. 4. Grandfathers—Fiction. 5. Goldberg, Rube, 1883–1970—Fiction. 6. Science fairs—Fiction.] I. Brantley Newton, Vanessa, illustrator. II. Title.
PZ7.H8935Rub 2014
[Fic]—dc23
2013002034