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Gr 3–6—"I could tell right away that this wasn't a house that wanted me." Thus, readers are introduced to nine-year-old Ellie. It's the 1950s in Saskatchewan, and Ellie's father is down on his luck and has had to take a job as a traveling salesman. He has no choice but to leave his daughter with his dead wife's mother—an embittered woman made vitriolic by her resentment and anger. She hadn't consented to the marriage and blames her son-in-law for her daughter's death when Ellie was an infant. Unmarried Uncle Roger, who runs the farm, has had his ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More