Ella Minnow Pea - Mark Dunn

A hilarious and moving story of one girl's fight for freedom of expression, as well as a linguistic tour de force sure to delight word lovers everywhere

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
phrase containing all the letters of the alphabet, "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog."


Now Ella finds herself
acting to save her friends, family, and fellow citizens from the encroaching totalitarianism
of the island's Council, which has banned the use of certain letters of the alphabet
as they fall from a memorial statue of Nevin Nollop. As the letters progressively
drop from the statue they also disappear from the novel.
The result is "alove letter to alphabetarians and logomaniacs everywhere" (Myla Goldberg, bestselling author of Bee Season).