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Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Perfection Learning
ISBN-10: 0756901502
ISBN-13: 9780756901509
Buy.com Sku: 209653656
Publish Date: 9/22/2008
Age Range:
NA
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After the death of her mother, an eleven-year-old girl finds that life with her father is too dangerous and tries to find a new home |
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An 11-year-old girl narrates this award-winning first novel. Ellen witnesses her beloved mother's suicide and is forced to live with her alcoholic father. Unable to stand his behavior, she runs away to live with her art teacher. A painful story of a young girl's search for identity and love.
An 11-year-old girl narrates this award-winning first novel. Ellen witnesses her beloved mother's suicide and is forced to live with her alcoholic father. Unable to stand his behavior, she runs away to live with her art teacher. A painful story of a young girl's search for identity and love.
Author Bio
Kaye Gibbons
Gibbons grew up in North Carolina; her father was an alcoholic, her mother a suicide. She graduated from the University of North Carolina. Her first novel, ELLEN FOSTER, was published in 1987; her first bestseller was CHARMS FOR THE EASY LIFE (1993). Gibbons is part of the "Southern Renaissance" in American fiction.
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