The long-awaited conclusion to the trilogy begun with 1993's Make Lemonade delivers on its promise. More than a year has passed since the events of True Believer (2001), and two summers of Summer Science have taught LaVaughn more than she ever could have learned at her underfunded inner-city school. Now she's studying after school at WIMS: Women in Medical Science, a program created by Dr. Moore, an inner-city success story who's returned to give poor girls the support she never had. LaVaughn works hard at WIMS, dreaming of one day becoming a nurse. But though LaVaughn is indebted to the program, she has suspicions about Dr. Moore's history, suspicions that lead her into the conflict between what's right and what's necessary. In heartbreaking free-verse chapters, LaVaughn discovers that helpful adults are not perfect and that forgiveness is necessary even for the unforgivable. Despite the book's oversimplification of religion and a conclusion that would seem pat if it were not so emotionally right, this portrayal of the dignity of poverty is quite the tearjerker. The audacity of hope, indeed. (Fiction. 13-15)
Each discovery disturbs the arrangements of the known world, and it is our job to stay alert to all possibilities.
LaVaughn believes she is keeping alert to all possibilities. She has made it through the projects, she's gotten over heartbreak, she's grown up, and now she's been admitted to the Women in Science program that might finally be her ticket to COLLEGE. But the discoveries she makes during her senior year in high school-two girls pregnant, with very few options-disturb everything in her known world. And in an effort to bring together people who should love each other, she jeopardizes the one prize she has sought her whole life long.
When do you know whether you're doing the right thing? What happens when you can't find a way to make lemonade out of lemons?
Virginia Euwer Wolff takes on the biggest questions¿about life and love, certainly, but also about girls and women, sacrifice and compassion¿and has something quite rev-elatory to say about them in this full house.
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LaVaughn believes she is keeping alert to all possibilities. She has made it through the projects, she's gotten over heartbreak, she's grown up, and now she's been admitted to the Women in Science program that might finally be her ticket to COLLEGE. But the discoveries she makes during her senior year in high school-two girls pregnant, with very few options-disturb everything in her known world. And in an effort to bring together people who should love each other, she jeopardizes the one prize she has sought her whole life long.
When do you know whether you're doing the right thing? What happens when you can't find a way to make lemonade out of lemons?
Virginia Euwer Wolff takes on the biggest questions¿about life and love, certainly, but also about girls and women, sacrifice and compassion¿and has something quite rev-elatory to say about them in this full house.
This Full House
Each discovery disturbs the arrangements of the known world, and it is our job to stay alert to all possibilities.
LaVaughn believes she is keeping alert to all possibilities. She has made it through the projects, she's gotten over heartbreak, she's grown up, and now she's been admitted to the Women in Science program that might finally be her ticket to COLLEGE. But the discoveries she makes during her senior year in high school-two girls pregnant, with very few options-disturb everything in her known world. And in an effort to bring together people who should love each other, she jeopardizes the one prize she has sought her whole life long.
When do you know whether you're doing the right thing? What happens when you can't find a way to make lemonade out of lemons?
Virginia Euwer Wolff takes on the biggest questions¿about life and love, certainly, but also about girls and women, sacrifice and compassion¿and has something quite rev-elatory to say about them in this full house.
LaVaughn believes she is keeping alert to all possibilities. She has made it through the projects, she's gotten over heartbreak, she's grown up, and now she's been admitted to the Women in Science program that might finally be her ticket to COLLEGE. But the discoveries she makes during her senior year in high school-two girls pregnant, with very few options-disturb everything in her known world. And in an effort to bring together people who should love each other, she jeopardizes the one prize she has sought her whole life long.
When do you know whether you're doing the right thing? What happens when you can't find a way to make lemonade out of lemons?
Virginia Euwer Wolff takes on the biggest questions¿about life and love, certainly, but also about girls and women, sacrifice and compassion¿and has something quite rev-elatory to say about them in this full house.
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Product Details
| BN ID: | 2940172136610 |
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| Publisher: | Penguin Random House |
| Publication date: | 01/27/2009 |
| Series: | Make Lemonade , #3 |
| Edition description: | Unabridged |
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