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(0)Kaye Gibbons
1) Ellen Foster
Author
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Description
Having suffered abuse and misfortune for much of her life, a young child searches for a better life and finally gets a break in the home of a loving woman with several foster children.
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Lexile measure
1420L
Language
English
Formats
Description
This sequel to Gibbon's beloved classic 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...
Author
Pub. Date
1993
Physical Desc
254 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
A family without men, the Birches live gloriously offbeat lives in the lush, green backwoods of North Carolina. In a sad and singular era, they are unique among women of their time. For radiant, headstrong Sophia and her shy and brilliant daughter Margaret possess powerful charms to ward off loneliness, despair, and the human misery that all too often beats a path to their door. And they are protected through the years by the eccentric wisdom and...
Author
Pub. Date
1995
Physical Desc
209 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
The bestselling author of Charms for the Easy Life delivers "her best novel since Ellen Foster." Kaye Gibbons' award-winning novels of Southern family life have won rave reviews coast to coast. To the people of Bend of the River Road, Maggie Barnes is "the Barnes woman with all the problems." To her family, she is the unpredictable wife, elusive mother, and adored daughter-in-law, and to her maid, Pearl, she is the mistress who must be cared for like...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First Algonquin paperback edition.
Lexile measure
870L
Physical Desc
8 books (134 pages) in a bag ; 36 x 45 cm + 1 folder (30 x 24 cm)
Language
English
Description
A cloth bag containing eight paperback copies of the title, that may also include a folder with sign out sheets.
Having suffered abuse and misfortune for much of her life, a young child searches for a better life and finally gets a break in the home of a loving woman with several foster children.
7) Ellen Foster
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.), full screen : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Having suffered abuse and misfortune for most of her life, a young girl searches for a better life and finally finds it in the home of a loving woman with several foster children.