Ellen Foster is a story about a girl's childhood from when she was 9 years old until she was 11. It starts with the words, "When I was little I would think of ways to kill my daddy." She begins living with her drunken father and sick mother. Her mother commits suicide and Ellen is left with her father and grandmother. She must deal with pain, death, good times, and hardships as she goes through many different homes on her quest to find a family that she likes and that likes her. To read more about it, go to my links page.