Even though she accepts the hand the life has dealt her, it doesn't mean she can't have some bad, frustrating, or disappointing days. And over the course of the novel, Elly discovers just who she is and what her strengths and weaknesses are and then she rolls with it.Įlly is a great character. Instead, it's about a girl who happens to have CP dealing with many of the same issues any middle grader faces - being a new kid, making new friends, being snubbed by the other kids, but also being with people you like and who accept each other for who they are, doing the things you enjoy and that provide a great deal of satisfaction, and fighting to gain some amount to independence in your life. Elly has already accepted the fact that she has CP and will be in a wheelchair for the rest of her life.
To begin with, it isn't about a girl learning to live with CP.
There are just so many things I like about this book. Besides, there is still the Bake-Off to win. Well, not if Elly, Bert, and Coralee have any say in that decision. Cowan would drive Elly, Coralee, and Bert, who also lives in the trailer park, to and from school each day.ĭespite the other kids in school ignoring the three friends because they are trailer park kids, Elly finds she is enjoying living in Eufaula, realizing how lonely she had been in Nashville with no friends and just having the company of an overprotective aid all day long.īut as time goes by, and the decision is made for Grandpa and Mema to move into an assisted living condo, it looks like Elly and her mom will be heading back to Nashville. Her Grandpa had driven his car into the store, which is the event that brought Elly and her mother to Eufaula in the first place. The next friend Elly makes is Bert Aikers, son of the grocery store owner.
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.
ROLL WITH IT BOOK CHARACTERS PLUS
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. 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.
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