When I was little I would think of ways to kill my Daddy. I would figure out this or that way and run it down through my head until it got easy. So begins the t... » 

When I was little I would think of ways to kill my Daddy. I would figure out this or that way and run it down through my head until it got easy. So begins the tale of Ellen Foster, an eleven-year-old orphan driven to desperation by wicked relatives in this story of her battle for survival. «