Make Lemonade

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Summary: Make Lemonade
Review: Make Lemonade,When i saw this title it brought back lots of memories of summers from past when i would hang out with friends drinking this sweet summer drink.So needless to say i didn't think a book with this title would be that good,boy was i surprised.The characters show good emotion with each other,Miss Wolff did a very good job tying the characters together.The problem with the book is that its like the main character is telling you every thing like your talking to her,and that gets kinda annoying half way in to the book,a second problem is the lack of lenth.I could have read this in 2 mabe 3 days with out distractions,and there aren't many tricks and turns in the book.And whats with the chapters,a lot of them last like 1 page.Its pretty simple and straight forward.The core of the story was still nice enough to get me to give it a 3 out of 5.

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Summary: Make Lemonade
Review: Make Lemonade by Virginia Euwers Wolff is an excellent novel. In reading, the book you will find your self engulfed in the life and emotions of the characters in the novel. Virginia Wolff uses these characters to portray real life situation. Many readers will be able to relate to or come to understand some of the issues at hand. The writing style permits you to empathize with the characters of the novel. This work of fiction will allow you to develop opinions about the greater good in life. Sometimes what is important in life may not always be personal gain as depicted in Make Lemonade.

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Summary: honest and compelling
Review: LaVaughn is 14 years old, lives in the projects, and needs to earn money for college. She takes a job babysitting for Jolly, a 17-year-old, unwed mother. Jolly's house and life are both a mess. LaVaughn wants to help, but also wants to keep her eye on college. This book is written in an easy-to-follow blank verse format (like Karen Hesse's Out of the Dust). Even if you think you're not interested in teen mothers, this book could pull you in. Touching, different, easy to read. ages 11+

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Summary: Make Lemonade
Review: LaVaughn is a fourteen-years-old high school student . She needed a part-time job,something she cuold do after school to help earn money for college . Jolly needed a babysitter . Someone she could trust with her two kids, Jeremy and Jilly, while she worked the evening shift . LaVaughn helped Jolly's family to pass the most of difficult time. LaVaught also gives Jolly and her two kids a lot of love and understanding.
After reading this book, I feel I am very lucky. I have a good family, life and love from my parents. It tells me I need to value anything that I have had at this moment. This book also can tell other people how to make lemonade when you get lemon. I think that means when you own something you must know how to use it properly. I like this book, it has tought me a lot.

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Summary: When life gives you lemons, Make Lemonade!
Review: Virginia Euwer Wolff's, Make Lemonade, is a great award winning young adult fiction book. It is an open verse written book that talks about the hardships of a family. While Verna Lavaughn is trying to make extra money for college she does so by taking a babysitting job. Little did she know that by babysitting for a 17-year-old mother of two, she was taking on a big responsibility that ultimately turned into a great friendship. The book is mainly about Lavaughn's teenage life. It told about how when life gave her lemons, or hard situations, she made lemonade by making the best of the situations. The book was filled with unexpected drama. It left you in awe about what could possibly happen next. Lavaughn's mother became a single parent after her father died during her childhood days. Her mother was a very controlling parent, however, she only wanted what was best for her daughter and wanted life to be much better than the life she lead. Because they were poor, Lavaughn's mother made sure that she would get a scholarship for school by staying on her to be an honor roll student. She knew this would be the only way she could perhaps get into any college. In her efforts to earn money for college, Lavaughn answered an ad from the activity board for a babysitting job. She persuaded her mother to allow her to do this job for extra money although her mother was not very fond of the idea. To Lavaughn's surprise she took a job that put her in a not so familiar yet strange place. Lavaughn begins to work for Jolly by taking care of her children in the home; which is on the worse side of the city. Jolly, the two children's mother, is uneducated. She did not graduate from high school. Their father left them shortly after Jolly gave birth. Later in the story, Lavaughn's grades begin to decrease and Jolly lost her job. She has to make a big decision whether or not to keep babysitting for Jolly because she could no longer get paid monetarily. She also has to decide if she wants to get paid with material things- money or internally- a great feeling of knowing you have helped someone. If you would like to teach a lesson using stories of reality this would be a great book to use. It shows how when life gives you hard situations just make the best of them. When life gives you lemons make lemonade!!! Read the book for a great ending.

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Summary: make lemonade
Review: This a book about a girl named La-Vaughn(14). She needed a job, a part-time job. Something she could do after school to help earn money for college. Jolly(17) needed a babysitter, she had 2 babies, Jeremy and Jilly. La Vaughn started babysitting her children. La Vaughn gives Jolly's babies more love and understanding than should be possible for her. Her mom didn't like Jolly because she has 17 and she already is a mother and she sais that she needs help. La Vaughn helps a lot Jolly and she put her in school again and put the babis in a free day care in school, too. La Vaughn and Jolly were very good friends and the babies love La Vaughn.

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Summary: Make Lemonade
Review: When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. This is the moral of the reader-involving and well written novel Make Lemonade, by Virginia Euwer Wolff. Helping a teen mother get her life back on track, a 14-year-old finds many great life lessons awaiting her.

When LaVaughn takes a babysitting job to earn money for college, she has no idea how much impact she will have upon the lives of a 17-year-old and her children. Taking care of Jolly's kids, Jeremy and Jilly, soon turns into much more than an after school job. LaVaughn helps Jolly, Jeremy, and Jilly through simple issues such as buying shoes or making beds. She also helps with more complicated problems. For example, Jolly is fired from her job at a factory. LaVaughn tries to help Jolly manage and find a new job. From this, LaVaughn learns how tough it is for a teen mother to pay for basic necessities. She experiences several meaningful life lessons.

Make Lemonade is a book so well written that it feels as if the reader is drawn inside the story, laughing with two toddlers or crying with a teenage mother. Wolff uses the vocabulary of an inner city teenage girl to help the reader participate in the story. For example, the author uses phrases such as, "If you're that short...and somebody's told you there'd be a lemon plant and all you see is wrinkly, stickery dirt, no wonder you'd be mad." Also, Wolff sometimes writes as if LaVaughn is talking to the reader. The feeling you get during these times is similar to a feeling you get while watching a 3-D movie. The reader is able to get involved with the characters.

Overall, this book is one of few that can be fun to read and can make you think at the same time. While reading it, the reader feels as if he/she is right there with LaVaughn, living as she lives. During the book, there are many lessons to learn, whether you are experiencing a 3-year-old's point of view or trying to avoid welfare. Make Lemonade is a book that will leave readers running to the library for a sequel.

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Summary: Make Lemonade
Review: Make Lemonade is a book about a teenage girl (Verna) who needs money for college so she baby-sits for a family. The family is a single mom with two kids. The great babysitting job is not as great as Verna expected.....
This book has an interesting format, it is written like a poem. Make Lemonade teaches you about appreciating what you have. You do not realize how fortunate you are until you read this book. This book teaches you that all the people that are poor in life do not chose to be poor and are trying to earn money to dig themselves out of the poor house. This book also teaches the reader about dedication because, even though Verna didn't really like the job she kept going back to help the family, out of the goodness of her heart. This book really teaches you many important lessons. I rate this book a 4 out of 5 because it was interesting but there were so boring parts.

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Summary: Make Lemonade
Review: Make Lemonade is a great book to support two main thoughts, that little kids are taught at a young age. It shows to an older audience that "Hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard," and there is a 'silver lining under every gray cloud."
LeVaughn is a fourteen year old girl who lives in New York City. She wants to go to college. She takes a baby sitting job for a 17 year old girl, with two kids. The girl, Jolly, is in a wreck. She never completed high school and has gotten fired from her factory job. No matter what LaVaughn does to try to help Jolly out, Jolly does not except it. Will Jolly finally let LaVaughn help her out of her dark hours, will LaVaugn's college dreams get shattered? Will LaVaughn and Jolly both find their silver lining to pull them out of the Dust?

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Summary: Make Lemonade
Review: As corny as it sounds, this book is uplifting at the same time as it a depressing statement about the American dream, and it's all about the triumph of the human spirit.

All LaVaughn wanted was a nice job to make money and save for college, so she can be the first one in her family - in her entire apartment building! - to go there, and to make her mother proud. What she got was something far more complicated.

Jolly was a seventeen year old single mom with 2 kids, Jilly and Jeremy who needed a babysitter desperately so she can hold on to her dead end job at a factory. Her apartment was messy and smelled bad. But something in the way Jeremy held LaVaughn's hand made her take the job anyway. She immediately develops a special bond with Jolly and her kids, and reading about the relationships between these characters, their stories and how they band together to make changes for the better is amazing.

This book is excellent. LaVaughn has a strong voice and the portrayal of the lives of the people in their situations is absolutely brilliant. Not only is it gripping, it has a message.

When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.