Ella Minnow Pea

Yesterday I was at Barnes and Noble looking for an interesting book to read when my mom stumbled on to the book Ella Minnow Pea. I thought the title was intriguing all in its self so I bought it. I just finished it and it's one of the cleverest books I've ever read. When I was at the bookstore I didn't read all of the back of the book until I reached our car because my mom and I were on our way to a movie that was about to start (I was taking too long to find a book). Once I read the entire back of the book I knew I had picked a good one. Just to get a feel for it, here's what the back stated:

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 whole book is written in letters from the characters (it's their only way to communicate long distance to each other) of the book so as the letters in the alphabet are made illegal they have to stop writing those letters or be in fear of being banished off the Island to America. It was a lot of fun to see certain letters disappear. The author Mark Dunn knows his words.