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. But in the still-segregated South, Ludell‘s warm community exists side-by-side with poverty and injustice. Starting at $10.69 from Amazon / Barnes & Noble / Kobo /