Everything you need to understand or teach Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons.
When Kaye Gibbons published Ellen Foster in 1987, the novel-her first-met with an enthusiastic audience. Critics admired Gibbons's skillful creation of Ellen's narrative voice, acknowledging its accuracy in representing a child's point of view. Gibbons won two literary awards for Ellen Foster, the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction and a citation from the Ernest Hemingway Foundation. While some readers criticized the events of the novel as being melodramatic, others asserted that Ellen's wisdom...
Ellen Foster Lesson Plans contain 113 pages of teaching material, including: