description: What's new in LaVaughn's life is Jody--a boy she knew as a child who's come back to the housing project where she lives. Jody is like a He smells like chlorine, he calls her "little buddy," he goes with her to the dance. It's just as if he's in love with her. Except not quite.As LaVaughn puzzles over Jody, as her best friends struggle with belief and acceptance, and as Jody wrestles with questions about his own identity, Virginia Euwer Wolff rises to the occasion with this astonishing and powerfully moving novel, the second in the Make Lemonade trilogy.Heather Alicia Simms received an MFA from Columbia University in acting. She has made appearances in various television series, such as Third Watch, Life on the Street, Law &amp; Order and As the World Turns . She also narrated When Kambia Elaine Flew in from Neptune and Shayla’s Double Brown Baby Blues available from Listening Library.
language: English
title: True Believer
titlecomplete: True Believer
genres: Audiobook, Young Adult, Coming Of Age, Teen, High School, Fiction, Poetry, Contemporary, Realistic Fiction, Romance
ratings_count: 3471
series: Make Lemonade
awards: awardedAt: 978336000000
name: National Book Award
category: Young People's Literature, awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Jane Addams Children's Book Award
category: Older Children, awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Michael L. Printz Award, awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: South Carolina Book Award
category: Young Adult Book Award, awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Rhode Island Teen Book Award, awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Vermont Golden Dome Book Award, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: California Young Readers Medal
category: Young Adult, awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Carnegie Medal, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Gateway Readers Award
publisher: Listening Library