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Jan 21, 1987 · Ellen Foster is the abused Pippi Longstocking of the South, an adorable quirky confabulation who overcomes difficulty, circumvents evil and triumphs in developing tender and enlightened compassion for her Black friend, whom she understands will always have a hard life.
ELLEN FOSTER. A short first novel told in the laconic and telegraph-style voice of an 11-year-old girl down South. Ellen Foster is a kind of Huck Finn, smarter than her years and with wit and resilience in plentiful measure, whose orphan adventures lead her, at last, to a happy home.
Jun 8, 2014 · Narrated by 12-year-old Ellen Foster, a poor and uneducated Southerner, Ellen Foster follows its courageous and charismatic heroine's journey from her mother's suicide through her father's alcoholism and abuse to a loving foster family.
Jan 1, 2005 · 1,778 ratings228 reviews. In this sequel to Gibbons’s beloved classic Ellen Foster, Ellen, now fifteen, 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.
Jan 1, 2006 · Having been orphaned, lost her grandmother and been thrown out of her Aunt Nadine’s house, Ellen now lives with a stable, loving foster mother, Laura. Ellen helps rid Laura of her other, more troublesome foster children by snitching to their social worker about delinquent behavior.
Synopsis. Ellen is an only child living in a highly dysfunctional and abusive household. Her father is "trash" and has a drinking problem, and the household atmosphere is one of domestic violence. Her mother has a heart condition caused by rheumatic fever and, when the novel opens, is in the hospital.
Nov 1, 2022 · At first blush, Foster brings to mind Kaye Gibbons' searing 1987 debut novel, Ellen Foster, narrated by a plucky disadvantaged 11-year-old girl who is relieved, after much hardship, to land in a...
