num_pages: 200
description: An award-winning novel about growing up and making choices. Virginia 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.
language: English
title: Make Lemonade
titlecomplete: Make Lemonade (Make Lemonade, #1)
genres: Coming Of Age, Teen, Fiction, Young Adult, Middle Grade, School, Contemporary, Poetry, Poverty, Realistic Fiction
ratings_count: 10714
series: Make Lemonade
awards: awardedAt: 788947200000
name: Vermont Golden Dome Book Award, awardedAt: 757411200000
name: Michigan Library Association Thumbs Up! Award, awardedAt: 725875200000
name: Best Children's Books of the Year (Bank Street College of Education)
publisher: Henry Holt and Company