The Life All Around Me by Ellen Foster

The triumphant return of the New York Times bestselling novel’s orphaned heroine—“ the Southern Holden Caulfield . . . the female Huck Finn” ( Bookmarks Magazine ).   Ellen Foster, fifteen years old, formidable, and back in North Carolina with a loving new foster mother, has written to the president of Harvard, asking for early admission. Having already crammed a lot of tragedy, adversity, and trauma into her young years, surely she’s due something.   In the meantime, sh