Catching the wild waiyuuzee

By Rita Williams-Garcia

Subjects: Mothers and daughters, fiction, Hair, fiction, Juvenile fiction, Mothers and daughters, Fiction, Hair, African Americans, Children's fiction, African americans, fiction

Description: As she tries to escape her mother's efforts to "plait-a-plait" and "string-a-bead" her hair, a young girl imagines herself escaping into a jungle.