Name: Make Lemonade
ISBN: 9780805080704

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Why This Clicks

Choices in Verse

Free verse gives this story of ambition, care, and hard choices a direct, intimate rhythm.

Come here for

A determined teenager's college hopes
The complications of helping a young mother

Expect

A serious coming-of-age story in free verse
Lessons learned beyond the classroom

Book Details

Authors: Virginia Euwer Wolff
Publisher: Square Fish
Published: May 2, 2006
Format: Print & ebook
Theme: Homelessness & Poverty for Teens · Teen Pregnancy
Reading lane: Homelessness & Poverty for Teens

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Publisher Categories

Novels in Verse for Teens
Homelessness & Poverty for Teens
Teen Pregnancy

About This Book

An award-winning novel about growing up and making choices Viginia Euwer Wolff's groundbreaking novel, written in free verse, tells the story of fourteen-year-old LaVaughn, who is determined to go to college—she just needs the money to get there. When she answers a babysitting ad, LaVaughn meets Jolly, a seventeen-year-old single mother with two kids by different fathers. As she helps Jolly make lemonade out of the lemons her life has given her, LaVaughn learns some lessons...

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An award-winning novel about growing up and making choices Viginia Euwer Wolff's groundbreaking novel, written in free verse, tells the story of fourteen-year-old LaVaughn, who is determined to go to college—she just needs the money to get there. When she answers a babysitting ad, LaVaughn meets Jolly, a seventeen-year-old single mother with two kids by different fathers. As she helps Jolly make lemonade out of the lemons her life has given her, LaVaughn learns some lessons outside the classroom.