false <![CDATA[Tomato Girl]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1214616972m/2895025.jpg 2895025 2 For eleven-year-old Ellie Sanders, her father has always been the rock that she could cling to when her mother's emotional troubles became too frightening. But when he comes under the thrall of the pretty teenager who raises vegetables and tomatoes for sale at the general store that he runs, Ellie sees her security slowly slipping away. Now she must be witness and warden to her mother's gradual slide into madness. Told from Ellie's point of view, <i>Tomato Girl</i> takes the reader into the soul of a terrified young girl clinging desperately to childhood while being forced into adulthood years before she is ready. To save herself, she creates a secret world, a place in which her mother gets well, her father returns to being the man he was, and the Tomato Girl is banished forever. <i>Tomato Girl</i> marks the debut of a gifted and promising new author who has written a timeless Southern novel. 2921395 26 8 2008 Tomato Girl total:265|5:90|4:98|3:52|2:19|1:6| 265 1042 659 119 5 4 false false Wed Oct 08 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 29 03:09:49 -0700 2008 Mon Jan 05 00:38:23 -0800 2009
How we hope little Ellie will come through the dark places of her 11 years of life whole again, as whole as one might expect from the insanity she has survived. We ...more...]]> 5 5 false false Fri Aug 22 08:54:40 -0700 2008 Sat Aug 23 07:52:25 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 3 false false Tue Aug 12 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Jul 25 06:35:20 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 15 08:01:00 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 2 false false Fri Aug 15 11:08:20 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 15 11:09:29 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 2 false false Mon Jun 16 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Jun 10 07:18:53 -0700 2008 Sat Aug 23 06:43:04 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 2 false false Sat Oct 11 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Aug 21 03:14:45 -0700 2008 Sat Oct 11 15:47:47 -0700 2008
O.K. I sat outside all afternoon and read this book. I couldn't stop!! But Jayne, I'm mad!! Oh, how could you make Ellie's world so horrible!!? There are so few good people in Ellie's life. You made me totally...more...]]> 5 2 false false Sat Oct 11 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 26 13:09:29 -0700 2008 Mon Oct 13 16:26:08 -0700 2008
This is an excellant first novel - well written, well developed, very dysfunctional characters and a story line that is reminiscent of an Oprah book!

The Tomato Girl is Ellie Sanders'...more...]]> 5 2 false false Fri Oct 24 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Sep 25 17:00:43 -0700 2008 Fri Nov 14 21:46:28 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Fri Nov 28 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Nov 12 20:24:15 -0800 2008 Sat Nov 29 07:55:17 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 2 false false Wed Aug 20 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 23 11:23:42 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 20 19:14:06 -0700 2008
Bravo, Jayne!!]]> 4 2 false false Tue Sep 23 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 01 14:01:20 -0700 2008 Wed Sep 24 05:54:36 -0700 2008 4 1 false false Sun Jan 04 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Dec 10 06:17:16 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 04 08:55:39 -0800 2009
This. is. not. that. book.

Poor Ellie, is dealing with an uns...more...]]> 4 1 false false Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Oct 17 17:40:41 -0700 2008 Sun Nov 02 08:44:33 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon Nov 10 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Sep 06 12:01:45 -0700 2008 Mon Nov 10 09:56:50 -0800 2008 I went to college at a very southern school and although it was in Virginia (and not say, Alabama) the students there did not get much more Southern. So, I always enjoy going 'back'; reading this book definitely took me back!

I absolutely adored Ellie...more...]]> 5 1 false false Fri Aug 29 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 27 11:14:27 -0700 2008 Sat Aug 30 05:44:10 -0700 2008
"Mama, like me, loves fragile things, but she can hurt them when she’s troubled. Sometimes something comes ...more...]]> 4 1 false false Fri Sep 12 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Aug 21 08:39:20 -0700 2008 Fri Sep 12 12:44:02 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Aug 17 15:25:36 -0700 2008 Sun Nov 02 13:09:53 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 2 false false Fri Sep 19 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 05 14:17:02 -0700 2008 Sat Sep 20 17:11:48 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 3 false false Mon Jul 21 03:36:08 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 29 09:21:36 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Wed Jul 02 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 07 07:44:28 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 07 14:17:15 -0700 2008 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=2895025