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1) Ellen Foster
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1988, c1987
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Description
"When I was little I would think of ways to kill my daddy. I would figure out this or that way and run it down through my head until it got easy." So begins the tale of Ellen Foster, the brave and engaging heroine of Kay Gibbons's first novel, which won the Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Institute of Arts and Letters. Wise, funny, affectionate, and true, Ellen Foster is, as Walker Percy called it, "The real thing. Which is to say,...
Author
Series
Ellen Foster duology volume 2
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Fifteen-year-old Ellen Foster is finally settled into a permanent home with a new mother and tries to prepare for her future while still carrying the burden of her mother's death and father's abuse.
Author
Pub. Date
1991
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 5
Description
A story that traces the bonds between four generations of resourceful Southern women through stories passed from one generation to another. Kaye Gibbons was born in Nash County, North Carolina and attended Rocky Mount Senior High School, North Carolina State University, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her first novel, Ellen Foster, was awarded the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction of the American Academy and Institute of the...
