But Ellie shows fierce loyalty to her neighbors, especially her best friend, who becomes a target for cruel jokes at school. Her attitude toward her star-struck mother and remote father is as ambivalent at the end of the story as it is in the beginning. Readers may find it unsettling that Ellie fails to make a significant connection with either parent. Around the time of Kennedy's assassination, she decides to leave her family to pursue her dream in New York City. Tension mounts as Doris becomes increasingly obsessed with becoming a famous actress and grows neglectful of her children. And she felt a pang of embarrassment at being one of the people who lived on Witch Tree Lane.") Ellie's chief source of anxiety is her mother, Doris Day Dingman, who acts more like a beauty queen than a mother. She felt a tugging fondness for her small house and the four other houses on the street. ("Every time Ellie neared her street she was struck by two opposing feelings, and wasn't sure how her heart had room for both of them. Eleanor ("Ellie") Roosevelt Dingman, a sixth-grade resident of Spectacle, N.Y., wrestles with her feelings about her family and neighborhood, which is filled with social misfits. , affectingly reexamines them in this third novel set in the 1960s. Martin, who explored with such insight the themes of ostracism and family conflict in Belle Teal
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