- Neighborhood, Neighborhoods, Mothers, Juvenile fiction
In 1963, when her flamboyant mother abandons the family to pursue her dream of becoming an actress, eleven-year-old Ellie Dingman takes charge of her younger siblings, while also trying to deal with her outcast status in school and frightening acts of prejudice toward the "misfits" that live on her street.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and spare.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- sparerichly built
- intimateepic
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- Author
- Ann M. Martin
- First published
- 2004
- Pages
- 308
- Publisher
- Scholastic Press, Scholastic Inc., Scholastic
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780439579445
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“In 1963, Ellies mother, Doris Day Dingman, was crowned the Bosetti Beauty at Mr. Bosetti's supermarket.”
Ann Martin was born and raised in Princeton, New Jersey. She graduated from Smith College in 1978 with a double major in psychology and elementary education. She worked as a teacher and then an editor of children's books. Her first published book was Bummer Summer (1983). She is best known for her Baby-sitters Club series of children's books. In 1990, she created the Ann M. Martin Foundation, which provides grants to causes benefiting children, education and literacy programs, and homeless people and animals. She lives in Hudson Valley, New York.
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