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Ellen Foster
Kaye Gibbons

Ellen Foster

Vintage (Nov 05, 1997)
9780375703058
| Paperback
144 pages | 124 x 201 mm | English
Dewey 813.54

Genre

  • Mystery/Suspense/Thriller

Subject

  • Children Of Alcoholics
  • Children Of Alcoholics - Southern States - Fiction
  • Girls
  • Orphans
  • Southern States

Plot

In Ellen Foster, the title character is an 11-year-old orphan who refers to herself as "old Ellen," an appellation that is disturbingly apt. Ellen is an old woman in a child's body; her frail, unhappy mother dies, her abusive father alternately neglects her and makes advances on her, and she is shuttled from one uncaring relative's home to another before she finally takes matters into her own hands and finds herself a place to belong.

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