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 ReviewsColumn Appertaining To Books Make Lemonade (Make Lemonade #1)
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 forMake Lemonade Book Review LaVaughn is an ambitious girl with high hopes and dreams of going to college. She studies hard in school, gets good grades, and does her best to earn money for college. However, LaVaughn ends up babysitting Jollys two kids, and Jolly is a single mom who is 17 years old, struggling fiercely with life. LaVaughn is determined to show Jolly and her kids that life isnt always sour and that a world full of sweet delights still exists. The time the four people spend with each
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
5 stars not just because it's excellent ... because it is ... but because Wolff really was at the leading edge of what has become a delightful genre with all kinds of wonderful possibilities--the novel in verse. I find it interesting that Wolff knew instinctively that this style of writing (which didn't even have a name at the time) would be the perfect format to address bright but struggling readers. Telescoped ideas and emotions, viscerally expressed themes; that's what this genre does best,
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".
This book is about how a mom(Jolly) who's seventeen and has two kids, is helped by thirteen-year-old LaVaughn, and she turns out to be one of the most important assets in Jolly's life. This book kind of tells you about the things that Jolly went through, but it's mostly talking about the life-changing events that went on in Jolly's household. This book was very serious, and I'm not the serious type, but I have to say, this book was great. It's very focused on the topic that the book is about. A
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