Ambiguously Absent Parent: Otis Spofford's mom takes care of him and runs the dance school, but his father John Spofford never appears in either book, and his name is only known by virtue of the first book referring to Otis's mother as "Mrs.Otis Spofford (1953) - Ellen Tebbits and her troublemaking classmate Otis Spofford are in the fourth grade, and the story follows Otis's point of view as he looks for ways to liven up his life, until he goes too far in his teasing of Ellen one day.However, one day, the two girls have a brief falling-out after a misunderstanding. Ellen Tebbits (1951) - Third-grader Ellen lives on Tillamook Street and attends Rosemont School, and early on befriends the new girl in town, Austine Allen.Ellen and Otis is a two-book series written by Beverly Cleary, following the daily exploits of the titular characters in Portland, Oregon.
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