01958cam a2200325 4500 552433240 TxAuBib 20110602120000.0 050516s2006||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2005014231 9780152053895 0152053891 (OCoLC)60419469 DLC DLC YDX BAKER XY4 BTCTA YDXCP VP@ EHH KZV CQU PFO TxAuBib Rylant, Cynthia. Ludie's life / Cynthia Rylant. 1st ed. Orlando, Fla. : Harcourt, 2006. 116 p. ; 20 cm. Cynthia Rylant returns to her home state of West Virginia with this powerful and evocative collection of poems. In a heartbreaking narrative that flows like a novel, we follow Ludie from childhood to falling in love and getting married, through the birth of her own children, and on into old age. This is the story of one woman's experiences in a hard-scrabble coal-mining town, a story that brims with universal themes about life, love, and family-and all of the joy, laughter, heartache, and loss that accompany them. Would she tell you that six children were too many, that some disappointed, that others surprised, but that, all in all, six were too many and one would have been just fine. Would she tell you that she married that boy at fifteen not only because he was tall and kind but also because she needed a way out. Accelerated Reader/Renaissance Learning MG+ 5.6 2. 20110602. Poor women Poetry. Women West Virginia Poetry. American poetry. West Virginia Poetry. https://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0659/2005014231-b.html Contributor biographical information https://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0659/2005014231-d.html Publisher description TXGRD