An award-winning novel about growing up and making choices
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.
AWARDS
• Pacific Northwest Library Association Young Reader's Choice Award
• Pacific NW Lib Assoc YR Choice Award winner
• 2002 American Library Association Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adults
• School Library Journal Best Books of the Year
• Michigan Best Book for Young Adults
• NCTE Notable Child. Bks in Lang. A long-listed
• 2002 ALA Notable Children's Books long-listed
• 1993 BCCB Blue Ribbon Award winner
• 2002 American Library Association Notable Children's Books
• Books for the Teen Age, New York Public Library
• 1994 Golden Kite Award Winner winner
• 2002 ALA Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adults long-listed
• 1994 Horn Book Magazine Fanfare List long-listed
• 2002 American Library Association Best Books for Young Adults
• Michigan Best Book for YA winner
• School Library Best Books of the Year long-listed
• Parenting Magazine, Best Children's Award
• Parents' Choice Honor Books commendation
• 1993 Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books Blue Ribbon Award
• NYPL Books for the Teen Age winner
• 2002 American Library Association Quick Picks for Young Adults
• Parenting Mag., Best Children's Award winner
• 2002 ALA Best Books for Young Adults long-listed
• 1994 Golden Kite Award
• IRA Teachers' Choices long-listed
• NCTE Notable Children's Books in the Language Arts
• Pacific Northwest Library Association Young Reader's Choice Award
• 2002 American Library Association Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adults
• School Library Journal Best Books of the Year
• Michigan Best Book for Young Adults
• 2002 American Library Association Notable Children's Books
• Books for the Teen Age, New York Public Library
• 2002 American Library Association Best Books for Young Adults
• Parenting Magazine, Best Children's Award
• 1993 Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books Blue Ribbon Award
• 2002 American Library Association Quick Picks for Young Adults
• 1994 Golden Kite Award
• NCTE Notable Children's Books in the Language Arts
• 2004 School Library Journal Best Books of the Year long-listed
• 2007 NYPL Books for the Teen Age winner