The Life All Around Me By Ellen Foster
by:
Kaye Gibbons (author)
In this sequel to Gibbons’s beloved classic Ellen Foster, Ellen, now fifteen, is settled into a permanent home with a new mother. Strengthened by adversity and blessed with enough intelligence to design a salvation for herself, she still feels ill at ease. But while she holds fast to the shreds...
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In this sequel to Gibbons’s beloved classic Ellen Foster, Ellen, now fifteen, is settled into a permanent home with a new mother. Strengthened by adversity and blessed with enough intelligence to design a salvation for herself, she still feels ill at ease. But while she holds fast to the shreds of her childhoodhumoring her best friend, Stuart, who is determined to marry her; and protecting her old neighbor, slow-witted Starlettashe begins to negotiate her way into a larger world. With a singular mix of perspicacity, naïveté, and compassion, Ellen draws us into her life and makes us fall in love with her all over again.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780156032902 (0156032902)
Publish date: November 6th 2006
Publisher: Mariner Books
Pages no: 240
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Academic,
School,
Literature,
American,
Historical Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
Contemporary,
Southern,
Womens Fiction,
Chick Lit
some beautiful writing and nice stuff about being unusually gifted, fitting in, etc. But damn, shouldn't Ellen have learned how to use quotation marks by now?
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