Ludell
by Brenda Wilkinson
Publication Date: Oct 14, 2014
List Price: $12.95
Format: Paperback, 228 pages
Classification: Fiction
Target Age Group: Middle Grade
ISBN13: 9781939601162
Imprint: Lizzie Skurnick Books
Publisher: Ig Publishing
Parent Company: Ig Publishing
Paperback Description:
A National Book Award nominee in 1975, Ludell is the first book in a groundbreaking trilogy about a young African American girl growing up during the 1950s in a small Georgia town. Ludell Wilson is a wisecracking bookworm and burgeoning writer who adores her best friend Ruthie Mae, her loving?but strict?grandmother, and everything about growing up. (Including her first pair of blue jeans, and her first boyfriend.)
But in the still-segregated South, Ludell?s warm community exists side-by-side with poverty and injustice. Wilkinson’s bold, funny narrator, whose story continues in Ludell and Willie and Ludell?s New York Time, shows us an America that is also changing?just not fast enough.
A National Book Award nominee in 1975, Ludell is the first book in a groundbreaking trilogy about a young African American girl growing up during the 1950s in a small Georgia town. Ludell Wilson is a wisecracking bookworm and burgeoning writer who adores her best friend Ruthie Mae, her loving?but strict?grandmother, and everything about growing up. (Including her first pair of blue jeans, and her first boyfriend.)
But in the still-segregated South, Ludell?s warm community exists side-by-side with poverty and injustice. Wilkinson’s bold, funny narrator, whose story continues in Ludell and Willie and Ludell?s New York Time, shows us an America that is also changing?just not fast enough.
Books similiar to Ludell may be found in the categories below:
- Juvenile Fiction / Family / Multigenerational
- Juvenile Fiction / Social Themes / Friendship
- Juvenile Fiction / Social Themes / Homelessness & Poverty