Bibliograph

The life all around me by ellen foster, Kaye Gibbons

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The life all around me by ellen foster, Kaye Gibbons

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

The life all around me by ellen foster

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Kaye Gibbons

Summary

Ellen Foster, fifteen years old, formidable, and back in North Carolina with a loving new foster mother, has written to the president of Harvard, asking for early admission. Having already crammed a lot of tragedy, adversity, and trauma into her young years, surely she's due something. In the meantime, she's got a lot on her plate: composing poetry and selling it to classmates; trying to tactfully back away from a marriage proposal from her best friend; administering compassion to a slow-witted neighbor who's found herself pregnant; and planning ahead for a writing camp for the gifted. Fueled by an indomitable spirit, undeterred by a naiveté she refuses to acknowledge, and patiently waiting on word from Mr. Derek Bok about her admission to the Ivy League, Ellen is going to continue to cram, while plotting her own deliverance from a town she knows in her heart she's outgrown

Target audience

adult

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