The Life All Around Me by Ellen Foster

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. But 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 begins to negotiate her way into a larger world.

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.


Author: Kaye Gibbons
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: 11/06/2006
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.20w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780156032902

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 6.7
Point Value: 8
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 106007 / Life All Around Me by Ellen Foster

About the Author
Gibbons, Kaye: - KAYE GIBBONS is the author of seven bestselling novels. Her first novel, Ellen Foster, was awarded the Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a special citation from the Ernest Hemingway Foundation. That novel, as well as A Virtuous Woman, was chosen for Oprah's Book Club. Gibbons lives in Raleigh, North Carolina.