Ella Bella By Jennifer Kathleen Gibbons
Published:
July 4th 2012
Publisher: Smashwords
Available as an Ebook
Synopsis:
Set
in 2001, Ella Drake has just experienced two terrible losses: her
father's death and her brother going overseas to fight the war against
terrorism.
Just when things start to calm down in her life, her mother's job is outsourced to India.
Frightened,
Ella tries to find security for herself and her mother. The search for
security leads to a children's bookstore, a new friend, and her first
kiss. And possibly, it paves the way for healing to begin.
From the bestselling author of I Woke Up In Love This Morning, Ella Bella explores loss and how lives can be changed.
Excerpt:
Everything changed that autumn.I know that sounds like such a cliche, but it was true. I started high school, and I was trying to become someone else. This was incredibly stressful, reinventing yourself. I had no idea how Madonna did it every year.Gone was the girl who wore pink barrettes and chewed gum. I braided my hair in dozens of braids. Mom took one look at it and she declared, "Your hair looks like a rat's nest." I didn't care. It was my hair. I even thought about going by real name Eleanor, but realized that for better or worse, my name was Ella. Or if you asked my brother Derek, Cinderella.
About the Author:
Jennifer
Kathleen Gibbons is the author of the Smashwords bestseller I Woke Up
In Love This Morning and the essay collection I Woke Up In Love This
Morning. She lives in Lafayette California and is working on a novel.
Find The Author:
@jenniferkate
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