Citation:
Wolff, Virginia E. Make Lemonade. New York:
Scholastic, 1993. Book.
Annotation:
LaVaughn is a 14 year old girl. She is growing up in a bad neighborhood and
her number one goal is to attend college to better her life. When she takes a babysitting job she ends up meeting
Jolly, the 17 year old mother of two with a messed up life.
Justification for Nomination:
This book
is written in first person and the interior monologue of the main character is interesting. The writing is also organized into open verses. LaVaughn’s point of view does a really good job
of capturing the way a 14 year old thinks and feels. Words that were used in the book such as ain’t
demonstrate a realistic way that someone from a low income neighborhood could
speak.
In the beginning
of the book LaVaughn is solely focused on her goal of college, by the end of
the book she has changed from her experiences helping Jolly. At the beginning Jolly is not managing her
life very well and she always expects other people to tell her things so she
did not have to think for herself. By
the end of the book thanks to LaVaughn’s help she has sorted her life out and
is on the path to success.
The
dialogue in this book is kind of different.
Instead of including the whole conversation many of LaVaughn’s parts in
the dialogue is relayed to the reader through her internal monologue and what
she says is summarized.
The plot
of the story how LaVaughn helps Jolly through her struggles is meaningful to
teenagers, because it shows how both of these teenager mature and become more responsible. This verse novel style makes the book really
short and has many blank spaces.
Teenagers that are not interested in reading may find this book a very
easy potential read.
Genre:
Verse Novel
/ Urban Fiction
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