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Running Back to Ludie
2001
48 pages
Juvenile poetryMaternal deprivationAfrican American familiesFictionAmerican poetryPoetryAfrican American girlsMothers and daughtersAfrican AmericansChildren's poetry, AmericanChildren's poetry
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.
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