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  • Bibliography:
    8 Books
  • First Book:
    August 2006
  • Latest Book:
    June 2024
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Book List in Order: 8 titles



  • Thirteen-year-old Joey Willis is used to being left out of conversations. Though she's been deaf since the age of six, Joey's mother has never allowed her to learn sign language. She strains to read the lips of those around her, but often fails. Ever...



  • Hannah Gale starts volunteering at a horse stable because she needs a place to escape. Her father has returned from the Iraq war as an amputee with post-traumatic stress disorder, and his nightmares rock the household. At the stable, Hannah comes to ...



  • "I don't realize I'm crying until he glances at me. For a moment, I see the look of anguish in his eyes, then he blinks it away and slips off into the water. I immediately think of the gator. It's still down there somewhere. . . ."A science-class fie...



  • When the captive dolphins that she has befriended are threatened, Buddy risks her father's condemnation and the law to save their lives in this powerful story about a dyslexic child, trapped by the limitations of her learning disability, who discover...



  • Schneider Family Book Award-winning author Ginny Rorby has created an irresistible dolphin story about a girl's struggle to help her autistic brother and herself. Lily loves her half-brother, Adam, but she has always struggled with him, too. He's def...



  • From Ginny Rorby, the author of Hurt Go Happy, winner of ALA’s Schneider Family Book Award, comes Freeing Finch, the inspiring story of a transgender girl and a stray dog who overcome adversity to find love, home, and a place to belong. When her...



  • Like Dust, I Rise is an uplifting tale that artfully pulls you into the slipstream of a scrappy girl who defies the ravages of the Dustbowl and The Great Depression to achieve her goal of becoming a pilot. -Bruce Lewis, author of Bloody PawsInspired ...



  • Can a young girl with a juvenile record convince the authorities that a greenhouse full of plants are the witnesses to a crime-and that she can prove it?Girl Under Glass is the story of a rootless, rebellious young girl sinking deeper into juvenile d...




Award-Winning Books by Ginny Rorby

Hurt Go Happy
2008 Schneider Family Book Award -- Teen
Lost in the River of Grass
2013 Sunshine State Young Reader's Award -- Grades 6-8


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Ginny Rorby has published 8 books.

The next book by Ginny Rorby, Girl Under Glass, will be published in June 2024.

The first book by Ginny Rorby, Hurt Go Happy, was published in August 2006.

No. Ginny Rorby does not write books in series.