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Title: Make Lemonade by Virginia Euwer Wolff ISBN: 0-590-48141-X Publisher: Scholastic Pub. Date: February, 2003 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.23 (52 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: When Life Gives You Lemons, Make Lemonade
Comment: LaVaughn is a 14 year old girl who needs to earn her way into college. She gets a job Babysitting for a girl named Jolly, who is only 17. Jolly has two children named Jeremy and Jilly. This book shows how a single mother (Jolly) has a hard time in life and how some unexpecting people may help you. Make Lemonade focuses on LaVaughn's time with Jolly, Jeremy, and Jilly and how they all help each other in different ways.
Personally, I loved this book. If you are a girl who has babysat before, you might relate to the horrors and pleasures of a babysitting job. I liked this book so much, I chose this as my piece in Oral Interpretation. It is a great novel that was very well-written. Virginia Wolff is a genius.
Rating: 4
Summary: MAKE LEMONADE
Comment: In the novel Make Lemonade by Virginia Euwe Wolff, is a terrific book that tells about a fourteen year old girl named LaVaughn who helps a teen mom get back on her feet. LaVaughn is a hardworking and an A student who is determined to get into a scholarship to a good college so she can get as far away as she can from this town and get a respectable job. Jolly is a teenage mother with two children who is barely making the money for her rent and is in desparate need of a baby sitter. LaVaughn, deciding she needs all the money she can get if not to recieve a scholarship to college willingly takes the sitting job. Soon after jolly gets layed off from her job and can't pay LaVaughn anymore. Read on and see how LaVaughn helps Jolly take control of her life once again.
Some aspects of the books that i enjoyed reading was how descriptive the writer was about Jolly's house. The author would go on about the cockraoches crawling all over the walls and the gunk stuck in between the floor panels that no one would dare touch and try to clean up. This was told in such great detail that while I was readng this book I had a complete picture of Jolly's house. Another aspect that I liked about the book was LaVaughn's perserverance. LaVaughn keeps above average grades, baby-sits, and on top of that helps her mother around the house. All while she is doing this she keeps a strong hold of things and never gives up. I, personaly think she is a very good role model. I also liked how real the hardships of Jolly and LaVaughn had to face. The author mentioned things like Jolly not having enough money for diapers anymore and how vermins were living in her house like there were suppose to be there. I liked this because if they didn't have problems to face then there would be no point to this book at all. On the other hand i also disliked how there needed to have at least one more element to have to overcome. Lastly I disliked LaVaughns mother's attitude towards Jolly. LaVaughn's mother thought that Jolly was an irrespnsible and clueless mother. I think she was being to quick to judge someone she doesn't even know. I would reccamend this book to children wholike short but heartfelt books on family ties.
Rating: 4
Summary: Making money for college wasn't supposed to be this hard...
Comment: LaVaughn is a 9th grade student with aspirations to go to college. She decides to take on an after school job to safe money to finance her continued education. The person who hires LaVaughn is Jolly, a 17-year-old high-school dropout and mother of two who needs childcare while she works. While LaVaughn is not wealthy herself, she is not poor like Jolly. Jolly's apartment is filthy and cramped. LaVaughn is stunned at the conditions Jolly's little family lives in.
When sexual harassment at Jolly's workplace causes her to lose her job, she can no longer pay LaVaughn for her services. LaVaughn feels badly for Jolly and her two children, so she continues to baby-sit the children for free while trying to help Jolly get back on her feet.
Virginia Euwer Wolff has crafted a gripping and gritty look at the difficulties of unwed motherhood. Jolly's fears about finding food, keeping her children, and doing it all while not compromising herself sexually are hard hitting and real. LaVaughn only wants to make money for college, but she is torn between doing what is best for herself and helping a person in need.
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Title: True Believer by Virginia Euwer Wolff ISBN: 0689852886 Publisher: Simon Pulse Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Monster (rpkg) by Walter Dean Myers ISBN: 0064407314 Publisher: Harpercollins Juvenile Books Pub. Date: 08 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: A Step from Heaven by an Na ISBN: 0142500275 Publisher: Puffin Pub. Date: January, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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