The Life All Around Me by Ellen Foster
Santa Ana, CA : Books on Tape, 2005.
Format: Eaudiobook
Description: digital
This sequel to Gibbons' beloved classic Ellen Foster, stands on its own as an unforgettable portrait of a redoubtable adolescent making herself up out of whole cloth. Now fifteen, Ellen 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 in the world. Her sole surviving ritual--a visit to the county fair--takes on totemic importance. While she holds fast to the shreds of her childhood--humoring her best friend Stuart who is determined to marry her, protecting her old neighbor, slow-witted Starletta, she negotiates her way into a larger world--selling her poetry for money to pay her way to a camp for gifted students. With a singular mix of perspicacity, naiveté and compassion, Ellen draws us into her life and makes us fall in love with her all over again.
Subjects:
Teenage girls -- Fiction.
Foster home care -- Fiction.
Poetry -- Authorship -- Fiction.
North Carolina -- Fiction.
Teenage girls -- Fiction.
Foster home care -- Fiction.
Poetry -- Authorship -- Fiction.
North Carolina -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9781415953815 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
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Title from: Title details screen.
Unabridged.
Duration: 4:57:55.
Electronic resource.
Read by the author.
Requires OverDrive Media Console (file size: 71383 KB).
Mode of access: World Wide Web.