February 10, 2005
YA22: Make Lemonade
I really do like listening to books in the car -- I'm making a bit of progress on my homework, I don't have to feel guilty that I should be doing some other work at the time, and I've avoided listening to any of the terrible things going on in the world for little stretches at a time (I try to catch a bit of NPR anyway so I don't go through withdrawl, but the car rides go by much faster when I'm not weighted down by real news).
So today on the way to work I finished up listening to:
Make lemonade [sound recording]
by Virginia Euwer Wolff
New York : Listening Library, p2002.
Read by Heather Alicia Simms
Its the story of two teenager girls -- 14-year-old LaVaughn who is saving money to go to college by babysitting, and 17-year-old Jolly who has dropped out of school and is trying to raise two little kids on her own.
I'm going to have to go back and read it though as well, since the Publishers Weekly review writes, "Poetry is everywhere, as Wolff proves by fashioning her novel with meltingly lyric blank verse in the voice of an inner-city 14-year-old." It was wonderful to listen to, but I bet it would be to read as well. It sounded almost like poetry but I didn't even realize it was written that way. Already its going to be one of my favorites of the YA books on my list and now I'll have to go check out the other two in the trilogy...
Ages 11-14
Posted by Emily at February 10, 2005 03:11 PM