Make Lemonade

Make Lemonade, by: Virginia Euwer Wolff

The book I read over the summer was the Great Gatsby, Relic Master and Make lemonade. I choose this

one because it was  like a high schooler life and I'm going to high school so  I was really engaged in the

book. A brief summary about the book would be, Jolly can't take care of her little kids with missing fathers.

She also dosen't have much of a job either. so she puts up a post for " babysitter needed bad ! ". Then soon

Verna La Vaughn, a young girl with big dreams comes along and helps Jolly out with Jilly and Jeremy. La

Vaughn has a high goal of going to college and her mother says she really dosen't have that kind of money,

but will try hard to work so it could happen.

Verna, wants to be very successful in whatever she is doing. Whether its school work or taking care of kids.

She is like a perfectionist. I think every child should go to college becuase it gives extra education and the

chance to get a really good job. Since her mother is trying to work hard to make money and when she gets

a check she puts it into a seperate account just for La Vaughn's college fund., if La Vaughn goes to college

she would be the first one to go out of all the people in her apartment. Jolly is a young mother with a whole

lots of struggles and worries. She is a single mother with both of the husbands gone. She isn't so clear when 

speaking english.so when La Vaughn comes she helps Jolly turn the "lemons in her life to lemonade, which is

sweet. I like how the author came up with such a story full with teamwork and , everyone tries to get their

work done.

As the story goes on Jolly finds her life becoming better As she takes an evening shift and La Vaughn

comes from school and watches the kids til' late in the evening. La Vaughn describes the children as filthy,

no good food and no learning in the household. La Vaughn becomes to be very good friends with Jolly and

starts to love the kids. She plays with them, cleans them and teaches them. Jolly feared that if she had

accepted the welfare handouts that she would lose custody of the kids. La Vaughn was getting Jolly's life

how she didn't have any family to fall back on, didn't really go to school, but after a while it gets better.  I

think  everyone in the story gets something positive out of it. La Vaughn is on her path to college, Jolly gets

her life together and the mother gets to see her baby go to college. so everone's lemons turn into lemonade.