Pros: moving, eye-opening, hauntingly realistic; excellent characterization; a quick and easy read Cons: none
14-year-old LaVaughn is determined to go to college. Where she comes from—a crime-ridden neighbourhood of public housing where bad words are scrawled in the elevators that you don’t want to enter with a stranger—few people make it to ...
Pros: Poetic, strong characters, deep questions Cons: Verse could be hard for struggling readers
When life gives you lemons... Find a job, get an education, pull yourself out of your pit, make lemonade, and pour full glasses for everyone around you. That's what LaVaughn decides. At fourteen years old, she's already seen what it's like to live in ...
Pros: Full of truth and something teenagers will be use to Cons: Jolly is a single mother and with LaVaughn she couldn't do it on her own.
LaVaughn is a fourteen-year-old that lives in the project but is trying to make a better life for herself by going to college. Although she is poor the word COLLEGE is serious in her house. So to make some money she babysits a 17-year-old mother of two. ...
An award-winning novel about growing up and making choicesViginia Euwer Wolff's groundbreaking novel, written in free verse, tells the story of fourte...More at HotBookSale
Virginia Euwer Wolff writes about tenacious people. In Make Lemonade she tells the story of Jolly--17-years-old, barely literate, with two kids from t...More at Buy.com
When she answers a babysitting ad, 14-year-old LaVaughn meets Jolly, a 17-year-old single mother with two kids by different fathers. As she helps Joll...More at Buy.com Marketplaces
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