Ellen Foster

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• The Life All Around Me by Ellen Foster By Kaye Gibbons

  Kaye Gibbons' voice sounds much as one might expect from a North Carolina born-and-raised girl. There's a lilt unique to that area of the South, the elongated vowels and the tendency to turn one-syllable words into two. It's a beautiful voice, mellif ... (read full critics)

  bookpage published on Tue, 14 Sep 2010

• The Life All Around Me by Ellen Foster-- book review

  The Life All Around Me by Ellen Foster Kaye Gibbons Harcourt Hardcover 224 pages December 2005 Young girls in distress are sympathetic characters, the down-and-out whose resiliency buys them a hard-won one-way ticket to the future; not only does Elle ... (read full critics)

  curledup published on Tue, 7 Sep 2010

2 Reviews

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  Ellen is a strong, wise and funny kid who tells about her story in such a way to result both joyful and sad. Lovely book

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  Ellen Foster

  Unique in that this story of hardship is told entirely from the point of view of a child with no adult mirroring of what is occurring - very effective.

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• English Books
• Paperback 144 Pages
• ISBN-10: 0375703055
• ISBN-13: 9780375703058
• Publisher: Vintage
• Pub date: Nov 05, 1997
• Dimensions: 1290 mm x 839 mm x 65 mm Just how big is that?
• Also available as: Hardcover, Audio Cassette, School & Library Binding and Others
• In other languages: other languages Livres Français, Libri Italiani

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