Tackling divorce and suicide with a warmth and sensitive humor that refuses to be weighed down, Someone Else\'s Shoes chronicles a road trip that unites three young people in search of family and acceptance.
She currently lives in Haydenville, Massachusetts..
Ellen is also the author of Saturdays with Hitchock and Parrotfish .
Wittlinger has taught at Emerson College in Boston and in the Simmons College Writing for Children MFA program.
Her books have been on numerous ALA Best Books lists, Bank Street College of Education lists, and state award lists.
Her novel Hard Love won both a Printz Honor Award and a Lambda Literary Award.
About the Author Ellen Wittlinger is the author of fifteen YA and middle-grade novels.
As the threesome travels in search of Henderson, they find a surrogate family in each other.
But when Uncle Henderson--who has been struggling with depression after his wife\'s suicide--disappears, Ben, Izzy, and Oliver set aside their differences and hatch a plan to find him.
And to make matters worse, Ben, the rebellious 16-year-old son of Izzy\'s mother\'s boyfriend, winds up staying with them, too.
Then ten-year-old cousin Oliver and his father, Uncle Henderson, move in with Izzy and her mom because Oliver\'s mother committed suicide only a few months ago.
Twelve-year-old Izzy, a budding stand-up comic, is already miserable about her father\'s new marriage and the new baby on the way.
Fans of Sharon Draper, Jo Knowles, and Counting by Sevens will be moved by this tale of what brings us together when things fall apart.
Tackling divorce and suicide with a warmth and sensitive humor that refuses to be weighed down, Someone Else\'s Shoes chronicles a road trip that unites three young people in search of family and acceptance
