Ludell Wilson loves her home in Waycross, Georgia, and a girl couldn't ask for a finer friend than Ruthie Mae Johnson, who has some of the wildest schemes and best ideas for having fun. When Ludell meets Wilie, the boy next door, she realizes there is a better life outside Waycross. [This book description comes from a different edition of this title. Please report any inaccuracies].

 

 

There are 228 pages in this book. This book was published in 2015 by Ig Publishing .

BRENDA WILKINSON is a recipient of a School Library Journal Best Children's Book Award, an American Library Association Best Books for Young Adults Award, and a New York Times Book Review Outstanding Children's Book of the Year Award. JIM HASKINS has written more than one hundred nonfiction books for young readers, including Diary of a Harlem School Teacher; his collaboration with Rosa Parks on her autobiography, Rosa Parks: My Story; The Harlem Renaissance; and Black Eagles: African Americans in Aviation. He is Professor of English at the University of Florida, Gainesville, and the winner of numerous awards, including the Washington Post Children's Book Guild Award for the body of his work, the Carter G. Woodson Award, and the Coretta Scott King Book Award.