RUNNING BACK TO LUDIE is a coming-of-age story about a girl who wants to find herself by finding her mother written in short poems.

A young girl is growing up, separated from her mother. She has only childhood memories and a video of her mother, Ludie. Living with her father and her Aunt Lucille, the girl is confused and wants to know more about her mother. She feels as if she has a hole in her life. She misses Ludie, wonders where her mother is and if they look alike. One day a letter comes from Ludie. Should the girl contact her? Should she go see her mother who she has never known? What will her aunt and her father decide? And how will her life change if her mother becomes a part of it?

The answers to all these questions and more can be found in the moving poems of RUNNING BACK TO LUDIE.

   --- Reviewed by Tamara Penny