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The life all around me by Ellen Foster / Kaye Gibbons.

by Gibbons, Kaye, 1960-

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Random House Large Print, c2005.

Teenage girls -- Fiction.

Foster home care -- Fiction.

Women poets -- Fiction.

North Carolina -- Fiction.

1st large print ed.

296 p. (large print) ; 21 cm.

Sequel to 'Ellen Foster'.

"This sequel to Gibbons's 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; and protecting her old neighbor, slow-witted Starletta-she negotiates her way into a larger world by selling her poetry to pay her way to a camp for gifted students. With a singular mix of perspicacity, naïveté, and compassion, Ellen draws us into her life and makes us fall in love with her all over again."--Publisher.

Bildungsromans.

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