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Ella Minnow Pea is a girl living happily on the fictional island of Nollop off the coast of South Carolina. Nollop was named after Nevin Nollop, author of the immortal pangram,* “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.” Now Ella finds herself acting to save her friends, family, and... read more
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Characters edit
- Ella Minnow Pea: Young woman living on the island nation of Nollop.
- Tassie Purcy: Ella's cousin
- Amos Minnow Pea: Ella's father
- Gwenette Minnow Pea: Ella's mother
- William Creevy: A riotous, rule-flouting young man
- Nathaniel "Nate" Warren: American editor of an academic journal on Nollop
- Mr. Gregory: Dairy farmer and bee keeper
- Asquith Kleeman: Publisher and Editor of the "Island Tribune"
- Babette Creevy: William Creevy's mother
- Mittie Purcy: Ella's aunt, Tassie's mother, second grade teacher
- Charles Rasmussen: clothing merchant
- Becka Rasmussen: Charles' nine year old daughter (Henrietta's twin)
- Henrietta Rasmussen: Charles' nine year old daughter (Becka's twin)
- Agnes Prather: Mittie's friend
- Rory Cummels: Grocer
- Georgeanne Towgate: Mother of one of Mittie's students
- Timmy Towgate: One of Mittie's second grade students
- Nash Towgate: Father of one of Mittie's students
- Hamilton Ferguson: Chief Secretary of the High Island Council
- Rederick Lyttle: A member of the High Island Council
- Tanya T.: Ella's friend
- Penny T.: Tanya's daughter
- Professor Mannheim: Professor working on Enterprise 32
- Tom: Works with Professor Mannheim
- Paula: Mannheim's daughter
Quotes edit
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“No mo Nollop Pomp!No mo Nollop poo poo!”
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“We are, when it comes right down to it, all of us: mere monkeys at typewriters.”
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“Robbed of two letters, I now chooooose to overuuuse the twenty-four which remaaaain.”
Mittieeeeeeeeeee
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In the sanctuary of my thoughts, I am a fearless renegade.
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“And yet, deep inside,” she tells me, “I am angry and rebellious.”
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Neighbor turning in neighbor, perpetuating old grudges and grievances with this new weapon
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“Today we queried, questioned, and inquired. Promise me that come tomorrow, we will not stop asking why.”
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You were right about the fallout from this most absurd law. Not only does it cripple communication between islanders, it builds rock walls between hearts. As Mum holds tightly to Pop I watch them trying to feel what once came so soft and easy. Yet the growing fear coils about us in such a way that affection becomes like bud-never-bloom. The sweet scent is there – the innate desire to blossom, but the cold wind locks the bud in place.
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heavipendence on linguistic orthodoxy. Through this challenge, he hopes to move us away from lexical discourse as we now know it, and toward the day in which we can relate to one another in sweet pureplicity through the taciteries of the heart.
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John Brady, give me a black walnut box of quite small size.
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A quick move by the enemy will jeopardize six fine gun boats.
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I am not going awae. I will learn to tawg in noomerals. I will learn sign langwage – anee-ting to stae in Nollop.
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Why do we follow, without misgiving, the will of Nollop? Simply because without him this island would be a shallow shell, an empty conch compared to what it has, in fact, become: a beautiful, sandy-shored haven of enchantment and delishmerelle.
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First Sentence edit
Dear Cousin Tassie, Thank you for the lovely postcards.
Table of Contents edit
1. ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
2. ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXY* The quick brown fox jumps over the la*y dog.
3. ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOP*RSTUVWXY* The *uick brown fox jumps over the la*y dog.
4. ABCDEFGHI*KLMNOP*RSTUVWXY* The *uick brown fox *umps over the la*y dog.
5. ABC*EFGHI*KLMNOP*RSTUVWXY* The *uick brown fox *umps over the la*y *og.
6. ABC*EFGHI**LMNOP*RSTUVWXY* The *uic* brown fox *umps over the la*y **g.
7. ABC*E*GHI**LMNOP*RSTUVWXY* The *uic* br*wn *ox *umps over the la*y **g.
8. A*C*E*GHI**LMNOP*RSTUVWXY* Th* *uic* *r*wn *ox *umps ov*r the la*y **g.
9. A***E*GHI**LMNOP*RSTUVWXY* Th* *ui** *r*wn *ox **mps ov*r the la*y **g.
10. A***E*GHI**LMNOP*RSTU*WXY* Th* *ui** *r*wn *ox **mps o**r the la*y **g.
11. A***E*GHI**LMNOP*RST**WXY* Th* **i** *r*wn *ox **mps o**r the la*y **g.
12. A***E*GHI**LMNOP*RST**W*Y* T** **i** ***wn *o* **mps o**r *he la*y **g.
13. A***E*GHI**LMNOP*RST**W*** T** **i** ***wn *o* **mps o**r *he la** **g.
14. A***E*G*I**LMNOP*RST**W*** T** **i** ***wn *o* **mps o**r **e la** **g.
15. A***E***I**LMNOP*RST**W*** T** **i** ***wn *o* **mps o**r **e la** ***.
16. ***********LMNOP********** *** **i** ****n *o* **mp* **** *** l*** ***.
17. ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs.
Glossary edit
- aposiopesis: the leaving of a thought incomplete usually by a sudden breaking off (as in “his behavior was—but I blush to mention that”)
- caesura: a usually rhetorical break in the flow of sound in the middle of a line of verse
- obeisance: a movement of the body made in token of respect or submission : bow
- turvied: as in topsy turvy "We have at present no recourse but to mind our p's and bury our q's, and try our best to eke out some crumbs of normalcy from our turvied lives."
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Series & Lists edit
This book is in The Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge. (community list)
This book is in KCPL Discussion Kit (Aug2010). (community list)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Anchor Books
Country: United States
Publication Date: 2002
ISBN: 0385722435
Page Count: 224
Publisher: Anchor Books
Country: United States
Publication Date: 2002
ISBN: 0385722435
Page Count: 224
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Classification edit
- Library of Congress: PS3604.U56 E45 2001
- Dewey: 813.54
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