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Summary: Bally
Review: First of all, I did not like this book and was very dissappointed. I think the author was trying too hard to make us feel sympathy towards the characters in the book. In comparison to the other books I have read this year, this book was very boring. It was all about a high school girl who dreams of going to college, but needs some money to get there. She takes an after school job babysitting, but it begins to consume her entire life. It would have been fine if the story came to a conclusion, but instead the words just slowly died off. I thought I would have liked it because it took place in an environment that I know well, school. However, it was all about tragedy and sadness. Frankly, this book depressed me. I believe the theme was to never give up, but I never reached it in the sea of boring words. Oh well!
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Summary: Amazing book about a persevering teen
Review: The book Make lemonade was a terrific story of a girl that only wanted to make money to go to college. Instead, she ended up babysitting two adorable children for a 17 year old mother and giving help and guidence to help turn her life around. Make lemonade was a great story for young adult readers around ages ten through fifteen, yet its lesson of hardships and perseverance are known throughout all ages. this book was a fairly easy read with not very complex vocabulary and a perfect two-hundred pages of a heart-renching tale. this story was a touching book that i would recomend to people that enjoy diving into a book filled with saddness that becomes uprighted and all happiness prevails. this book was very good and its moral sent a message that everyone can relate to and enjoy.
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Summary: One of the Best books I have ever read
Review: This book was great I loved it I couldn't put it down. I would suggest this book to anyone. One of my friends read apart of it and loved it.
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Summary: Real
Review: This book is very unpretentious, very approachable and down-to-earth, but that is exactly what makes it good. The narrator, LaVaughn, gets a job babysitting for Jolly, an unmarried, teenage mother of two children. LaVaughn has to decide whether or not to leave for a better job, and comes face-to-face with a reality she has henceforth been shielded from. It is so real, and it took me awhile to find it in the library---it was always checked out.
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Summary: Extraordinary!
Review: I chose to read "Make Lemonade" for a Summer Reading report. I have to say, it was one of the best decisions I've ever made. This book was TERRIFIC. I could read it again and again. It was truly one of the best books I've ever read. After finishing it, the story will still be on your mind.If you are debating wether to read it or not (as I was) READ IT. You won't regret it.
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Summary: Don't waste your time
Review: I was forced to read this book in school. It was horrible. If you don't like stream of consciousness, don't bother. "Bleh" about sums it up.
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Summary: A Complete Surprise!
Review: Surprisingly enough, I really disliked "Make Lemonade" for about the first half of the book. It was such a depressing, painful story about a girl, LaVaughn, who ends up babysitting for a 17-year-old (Jolly) who has 2 young children and no husband. LaVaughn, trying to move out of her dangerous neighborhood and into the world of college, cares for the kids in their dirty, run-down apartment while Jolly works at a factory - until she is unfairly fired. It seems as if there is no way the story could end happily... However, using a unique way of writing by breaking the text at the end of natural speaking phrases, Virginia Euwer Wolff manages to spin a tale of dispair that ends with the promise of hope.Even though I hated this book as I was reading it, the end is worth it. It's such a fufilling conclusion to a riveting story.
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Summary: MAKE LEMONADE
Review: In the novel Make Lemonade by Virginia Euwe Wolff, is a terrific book that tells about a fourteen year old girl named LaVaughn who helps a teen mom get back on her feet. LaVaughn is a hardworking and an A student who is determined to get into a scholarship to a good college so she can get as far away as she can from this town and get a respectable job. Jolly is a teenage mother with two children who is barely making the money for her rent and is in desparate need of a baby sitter. LaVaughn, deciding she needs all the money she can get if not to recieve a scholarship to college willingly takes the sitting job. Soon after jolly gets layed off from her job and can't pay LaVaughn anymore. Read on and see how LaVaughn helps Jolly take control of her life once again.
Some aspects of the books that i enjoyed reading was how descriptive the writer was about Jolly's house. The author would go on about the cockraoches crawling all over the walls and the gunk stuck in between the floor panels that no one would dare touch and try to clean up. This was told in such great detail that while I was readng this book I had a complete picture of Jolly's house. Another aspect that I liked about the book was LaVaughn's perserverance. LaVaughn keeps above average grades, baby-sits, and on top of that helps her mother around the house. All while she is doing this she keeps a strong hold of things and never gives up. I, personaly think she is a very good role model. I also liked how real the hardships of Jolly and LaVaughn had to face. The author mentioned things like Jolly not having enough money for diapers anymore and how vermins were living in her house like there were suppose to be there. I liked this because if they didn't have problems to face then there would be no point to this book at all. On the other hand i also disliked how there needed to have at least one more element to have to overcome. Lastly I disliked LaVaughns mother's attitude towards Jolly. LaVaughn's mother thought that Jolly was an irrespnsible and clueless mother. I think she was being to quick to judge someone she doesn't even know. I would reccamend this book to children wholike short but heartfelt books on family ties.
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Summary: awesome for teens
Review: The novel Make Lemonade by Virginia Euwer Wolff is about a fourteen girl named LaVaughn who baby-sits for a sixteen-year old girl named Jolly. The book tells about what happens while she baby-sits, about the family and their hardships, and about how the job affects her whole life. The story takes place in LaVaughn's home city, a place where many of the people can barely afford the roof over their heads. The people living here are not in good shape; there are many gangs, drugs, crowded high schools, and low security. Most of the residents are poverty-stricken, single parents, pregnant teens, criminals, or unemployed. The main characters fit some of these descriptions. LaVaughn lives in tiny apartment with her single mother. She attends a crowded high school where there are many gangs, drugs, etc. LaVaughn's father died when he got in between a gang fight that he wasn't even a part of. Jolly a sixteen-year old, single mother of two also has her share of problems; she was left by the men who gave those babies to her, and she can't get a job that pays well enough to support her growing children. She hires LaVaughn to baby-sit after school for her daily. Though sometimes LaVaughn doesn't get her full pay, she gets the love and admiration of the two children Jilly and Jeremy, and the friendship of Jolly. I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book, because it was not "sugar coated," or glamorized. LaVaughn's life mirrors the plight of many of the people living in this country. I also liked the way that LaVaughn helps Jolly in her time of need, most people would make her pay right away, or they would leave. LaVaughn and her mother share a common relationship that many teens experience with their own parents, no matter if they are rich or poor. LaVaughn and her mother can get in fights or annoy each other, but LaVaughn obeys and respects her mom and they love each other. I also liked the drama and suspense incorporated into this book, it wasn't like a mystery, but the actions left you wanting to see what happened next. I liked how LaVaughn had goals set for herself; she had wanted to go to college since she was in fifth grade, and she started to baby-sit for Jolly in order to get her dream off of the ground and start to save money to pay for her education. One other thing I liked about the book was that LaVaughn was not perfect, and she had to resolve her problems herself, they didn't just magically go away. Some of the characters in this book were easy to relate to, and it was easy to see their points of view, and the hardships of the lives of people who live like this. I would recommend this book to mostly teenage girls who like to see how people's live are different or harder than their own. This book was great, you wont be able to put it down until you finish.
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Summary: Very Good
Review: This book was very good, because it shows friendship, determination, and many other lessons to be learned in life. LaVaughn was only starting 9th grade when she took on the hard task of babysitting in a dirty, small apartment, she learned alot about being a young mother, and a helpful friend.
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