Hey all -
Thanks to a great book club last month hosted by Brittany!
Our book for December will be
Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn
hosted by Sherida
Tuesday, December 20, 2011
at 8 p.m.
Summary of the book
Ella Minnow Pea
is a girl living happily on the fictional island of Nollop off the
coast of South Carolina. Nollop was named after Nevin Nollop, author of
the immortal pangram, "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." Now
Ella finds herself acting to
save her friends, family, and fellow citizens from the encroaching
totalitarianism of the island?s Council, which has banned the use of
certain letters of the alphabet as they fall from a memorial statue of
Nevin Nollop. As the letters progressively drop from the statue they
also disappear from the novel. The result is both a hilarious and moving
story of one girl?s fight for freedom of expression, as well as a
linguistic tour de force sure to delight word lovers everywhere.
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