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Format: Paperback
Publisher: Random House Inc
Published: Nov 1997
Genre: Fiction - General
Retail Price: $13.00
Pages: 144
An 11-year-old girl narrates this award-winning first novel. Ellen witnesses her beloved mother's suicide and is forced to live with her alcoholic father. Unable to stand his behavior, she runs away to live with her art teacher. A painful story of a young girl's search for identity and love.
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short but gripping, couldnt put it down, perspective is so real