Make Lemonade

     Over the summer I read Make Lemonade by Virgina Euwer Wolff. The book is about a fourteen year old girl named Verna LaVaughn who has been looking for an after school job, when she finds one with a seventeen year old single mother of two named Jolly. Jolly has a two year old son named Jeremy, a one year old daughter named Jilly and a very dirty house. LaVaughn's job is to take care of the kids while Jolly works all night at the factory, until Jolly gets fired after her boss tried to rape her. Now there's a seventeen year old girl living in a poor town with two kids, no job, no money, and no time to look for a job. LaVaughn helps Jolly by babysitting for free while Jolly looks for a job and even signs her up for a moms program at High School after learning that she dropped out to take care of her kids. LaVaughn watches as Jolly slowly turns her life around.
     The beginning of the book was really depressing because of how they described the town and how it was really dirty, there were a lot of bad people wondering the streets, and how only a handful of students actually went to college to go on to get a job that actually payed decent money.Then in the end things seemed to get a lot better not in the town particularly but in the characters because they were actually doing something about their problems and to make their lives better. I think this book was about discovering your problems, finding a way to solve them and then actually going out and solving them.