Gibbons, Kaye, <br/><br/>
The life all around me by Ellen Foster  
Kaye Gibbons. 
 - First Harvest edition. 
 - Orlando  Harcourt, Inc  2006 
 - 222 pages ;  21 cm.  Paperback book 
 - Ellen Foster Series   Book 2 . <br/><br/> "A Harvest book." 
<br/><br/> This sequel to 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0156032902 9780156032902 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2005014552 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Teenage girls--Fiction<br/>Foster home care<br/>Poetry--Authorship
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>North Carolina--Fiction.
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<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS3557.I13917  / L54 2006d 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>Gib    2