num_pages: 146
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.
language: English
title: Ellen Foster
titlecomplete: Ellen Foster
genres: Fiction, Coming Of Age, School, Young Adult, Adult, Classics, Contemporary, Adult Fiction, Southern, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 30588
places: North Carolina
series: Ellen Foster
awards: awardedAt: 568022400000
name: Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction, awardedAt: 599644800000
name: Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize
category: Fiction
publisher: Algonquin Books