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Can I read Ellen Outside the Lines on EtoBox?

Ellen Outside the Lines by A. J. Sass is a children's book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Ellen Outside the Lines about?

Rain Reign meets Ivy Aberdeen's Letter to the World in this heartfelt novel about a neurodivergent thirteen-year-old navigating changing friendships, a school trip, and expanding horizons. Thirteen-year-old Ellen Katz feels most comfortable when her life is well planned out and people fit neatly into her predefined categories. She attends temple with Abba and Mom every Friday and Saturday. Ellen only gets crushes on girls, never boys, and she knows she can always rely on her best-and-only friend, Laurel, to help navigate social situations at their private Georgia middle school. Laurel has always made Ellen feel like being autistic is no big deal. But lately, Laurel has started making more friends, and cancelling more weekend plans with Ellen than she keeps. A school trip to Barcelona seems like the perfect place for Ellen to get their friendship back on track. Except it doesn't. Toss in a new nonbinary classmate whose identity has Ellen questioning her very binary way of seeing the world, homesickness, a scavenger hunt-style team project that takes the students through Barcelona to learn about Spanish culture and this trip is anything but what Ellen planned. Making new friends and

Who reads Ellen Outside the Lines?

It is typically read by young readers, and the parents and educators who guide them.

Common subject areas: juvenile, young adult.

Author
A. J. Sass
Publisher
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Published
2022
Language
EN
ISBN
9780759556270
Category
children's
Subjects
Children'S, Juvenile
Rating
4.7 / 5 (56 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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