cover image Ludie's Song

Ludie's Song

Dirlie Herlihy. Puffin Books, $4.99 (224pp) ISBN 978-0-14-034245-1

Dire consequences ensue when a 13-year-old white girl befriends a disfigured black girl thought to be a witch, in this depiction of racial prejudice set in small-town Georgia in the '50s. Ages 10-14. (Feb.)