num_pages: 4
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: Coming Of Age, Southern, Literary Fiction, School, Adult Fiction, Young Adult, Classics, Adult, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 30584
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: Recorded Books