ISBN: 0805080708 9780805080704

Category: Juvenile Fiction / Business, Careers, Occupations

Page count: 200

<p><b>An award-winning novel about growing up and making choices<br></b><br>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.</p>