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Wolff, Virginia Euwer
MAKE LEMONADE
New York : Scholastic, 1993.
IL YA  RL 5.2
ISBN 0805022287
My name is LaVaugn and I needed a part time job to get me to college but the person I ended up with needed me more than I needed the money. Her name is Jolly. (Read p. 76) When life gave Jolly lemons, why didn't she make lemonade? To find you want to find out why, you should read the book written like a free verse poem, MAKE LEMONADE by Virginia Euwer Wolff. (Sharon C., 8th grade student, Rundlett Middle School, Concord, New Hampshire)
SUBJECTS:     Teenage mothers -- Fiction
                        Babysitters -- Fiction
                        Single-parent family -- Fiction
                        Poor -- Fiction
                        Conduct of life -- Fiction

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