Daddy Says

by Ntozake Shange

Book Overview

"Do you really think she rides with us, Lucie? I mean, when we want to win so bad we can taste it in the back of our mouths and our throats go dry? Is Mama watchin' over us when it's our turn at the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0689830815
• ISBN13: 9780689830815
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
• Length: 183 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.7"
• Age Range: 10 to 14 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 9

Customer Reviews

Vivid, different storytelling for young readers

Annie and Lucie-Marie are daughters of two black rodeo stars who have been raised by a remote father after their mother is killed in the rodeo. Now that they are getting older, they miss their mother more than ever ? and resent their father's dating Cassie. Can Cassie take the place of a loving mother in a very different kind of family? Ntozake Shange's Daddy Says is vivid, different storytelling for young readers.