**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.