Coralee is a friendly, free-spirited girl with big blond hair who is on the beauty pageant circuit and she immediately invites Elly over to the trailer she lives in with her grandparents. And the first person she meets couldn't be more different. And there's a $100 prize for the winner.īut first, Elly has to adjust to life in a trailer and a new school. So the one advantage to being in Eufaula is that now Elly can participate in the Bake-Off for the best pie held by Mema's church every year along with their fish fry and silent auction. Plus they will be staying with Mema and Grandpa in their trailer, a small space for a wheelchair that requires her mother's help every time Elly needs to use the bathroom, which is more than embarrassing now that she's 12-years-old.Įlly has dreams of becoming a baker someday, and finds comfort in creating delicious cookies, cakes, and pies whenever the world becomes too much for her, including her overly protective mom and her absent father.
Elly is confined to a wheelchair because of Cerebral Palsy and really doesn't want to go through the whole "new kid in school in a wheelchair" thing again. (Oct.Elly Cowan wasn't particularly happy when her mother moved her from Nashville, Tennessee to Eufaula, Oklahoma over the Christmas holiday to help her Mema care for her grandfather, who is in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease. Agent: Keely Boeving, WordServe Literary. Ellie is easy to champion, and her story reminds readers that life’s burdens are always lighter with friends and family-and a good piece of pie-at the ready. In addition, Sumner deftly explores universal difficulties of fitting in and following one’s passions.
Sumner also makes it clear that Ellie is a regular kid who dreams of becoming a chef, which is conveyed partly through letters that Ellie writes to various culinary experts throughout the book. Drawing on her own experiences with her son, who has cerebral palsy, debut author Sumner doesn’t sugarcoat Ellie’s daily challenges-social, emotional, and physical-including navigating showers and crowded classrooms. Soon, Ellie meets free-spirited neighbor Coralee and eccentric schoolmate Bert their acceptance helps her to cope with her new school, which is far from wheelchair-friendly. After Ellie’s grandfather, who has dementia, drives his car into the local supermarket, Ellie and her mom pack up their Nashville home and move into her grandparents’ tiny trailer in Eufaula, Okla. Diagnosed with cerebral palsy at birth, Ellie heads to the kitchen when she gets frustrated with her overprotective mom, her hovering full-time aide, and her absent father.
Headstrong 12-year-old Lily “Ellie” Cowan loves to bake.
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