Virginia Euwer Wolff
Paperback | Pages: 200 pages Rating: 3.68 | 9967 Users | 1305 Reviews
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| Title | : | Make Lemonade (Make Lemonade #1) |
| Author | : | Virginia Euwer Wolff |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 200 pages |
| Published | : | May 2nd 2006 by Henry Holt and Company (first published May 15th 1993) |
| Categories | : | Young Adult. Poetry. Realistic Fiction. Fiction. Teen. Contemporary. Academic. School |
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An award-winning novel about growing up and making choicesVirginia 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.
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| Original Title: | Make Lemonade |
| ISBN: | 0805080708 (ISBN13: 9780805080704) |
| Edition Language: | English URL http://us.macmillan.com/makelemonade/VirginiaWolff |
| Series: | Make Lemonade #1, Make Lemonade #1 |
| Literary Awards: | Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award Nominee (1995), Michigan Library Association Thumbs Up! Award (1994), Best Children's Books of the Year (Bank Street College of Education) (1993) |
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Ratings: 3.68 From 9967 Users | 1305 ReviewsCriticism About Books Make Lemonade (Make Lemonade #1)
While a nice enough story about resilience, Make Lemonade confirmed that I just don't "get" the whole novel in free verse phenomenon. Sometimes limits, such as the compressed length of a short story, or the structured poetry of Shakespeare's plays lead to increased creativity on the part of the author. As I have for the other verse novels I've read I felt like the poetry in Make Lemonade led to lack of complexity in characterization and material closer to a short story than a "novel".If I could give a 3.5 I would. Make Lemonade is about LaVaughn, 14, she babysits for 17 year-old Jolly, who is a single mom. LaVaughn seems to have her life together, but when she gets involved in Jolly's life the story turns into one of friendship, parenthood, responsibility, and the opportunities life can throw at us when we don't give up. Race is not included in this story and I thought that was a great addition. I'm happy about the ending. I thought it was realistic. This book is a good
This is one of the best YA books I have ever read!!! It tells the story of a young girl in the poorer neighborhoods in NYC who answers an ad to babysit for two young children. The mother is only 17. The characters in this book are courageous and well developed. It is an amazing read and should be on the reading list of every middle school in the world!!
"'I counted 17 ladies and girls on the bus. And I thought of all the blood. That's a lot of blood. You know?'" I love that because thats what I think every time I see a group of girls. I think of how much blood they bleed and how much more theres to come. If I pour all their blood they bleed into a pool, would it overspill? Do they smell their blood after they catch their blood? I wouldnt have thought this woman pictured it like me. Its good to write things people think but dont ever say. Its
We all need help sometimes, but 17-year-old jolly requires a little more help than the rest of us. Up knee-deep in problems jolly is desperately looking for a babysitter so she can try to get her life back on track. 14-year-old livan is looking for money to keep and store for collage. She just happened to find her solution waiting for her a babysitting job. She meets the mess of the family and decided to help Jolly for the better of her two kids. I thought the book was good. The language was
I liked the book Make Lemonade by Virginia Euwef Wolff because its about a girl close to my age. First of all, Jolly needed a baby sitter because she had work. A girl Lavaughn offered to watch her kids. In the middle jolly loses her job and doesn't know what to do. Lavaughn helps with the kids still, and jolly has to go to school to get a better job and support her kids. I liked it when Lavaughn tells her mom, Jollys fired that means Ive got no babysitting money(Wolf.60) her mom feels bad for
I liked the book Make Lemonade by Virginia Euwef Wolff because its about a girl close to my age. First of all, Jolly needed a baby sitter because she had work. A girl Lavaughn offered to watch her kids. In the middle jolly loses her job and doesn't know what to do. Lavaughn helps with the kids still, and jolly has to go to school to get a better job and support her kids. I liked it when Lavaughn tells her mom, Jollys fired that means Ive got no babysitting money(Wolf.60) her mom feels bad for
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