Title: Here Today
Description: 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.
Subjects: Neighborhood, Neighborhoods, Mothers, Juvenile fiction, Family life, Prejudices, Fiction, Schools, Families, Identity (Psychology), Identity, History, School stories, Individuality, Historical fiction, New york (state), fiction, Family, fiction, Children's fiction, Identity, fiction, Mothers, fiction, Family life, fiction, Prejudices, fiction, Neighbors, fiction, Schools, fiction, New york (state), history, fiction, Identity (Philosophical concept)
Places: New York (State)
Time periods: 20th century