Title: Make Lemonade
First published: April 3, 2000
Description: Viginia 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.
Subjects: Fiction, Conduct of life, Single-parent families, Babysitters, Teenage mothers, Babysitters in fiction, Single-parent families in fiction, Teenage mothers in fiction, Conduct of life in fiction, Juvenile fiction, Poverty in fiction, Poverty, Poor, Poor in fiction, Novels in verse, Single parent family, Mothers, fiction, Babysitters, fiction, Single-parent families, fiction, Conduct of life, fiction, Children's fiction, Large type books, Friendship, fiction, Behavior, fiction, Adolescence, fiction, Food, fiction, Young adult fiction