Running Back to Ludie

By Angela Johnson

Subjects: African American girls, African Americans, Maternal deprivation, Children's poetry, African American families, Children's poetry, American, Fiction, American poetry, Poetry, Juvenile poetry, Mothers and daughters

Description: The narrator of a collection of bittersweet verses lives with her father and aunt, but will soon visit the mother she has not seen in years and rediscover how it feels to be her mother's daughter.