Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons

126 pages first pub 1987 (editions)

fiction young adult emotional hopeful reflective slow-paced
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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 ne...

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