Virginia Euwer Wolff, Author . S&S $7.99 (272p) ISBN 978-0-689-85288-6
"Eight years after the publication of her groundbreaking Make Lemonade, Wolff surpasses herself with this sequel," said PW
in our Best Books citation. "In delving into LaVaughn's life, the author unmasks the secret thoughts...
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Virginia Euwer Wolff, Author . HarperTeen/Bowen $17.99 (476p) ISBN 978-0-06-158304-9
Fans of Make Lemonade
and True Believer
have been eager for the final episode of this verse trilogy, to see where Wolff takes her protagonist, LaVaughn. For a while it seems as if LaVaughn's good heart and tenacity have been cleanly rewarded:
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Virginia Euwer Wolff, Author Henry Holt & Company $17.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-8050-2228-5
Poetry is everywhere, as Wolff ( The Mozart Season ) proves by fashioning her novel with meltingly lyric blank verse in the voice of an inner-city 14-year-old. As LaVaughn tells it, ``This word COLLEGE is in my house, / and you have to walk around...
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Virginia Euwer Wolff, Author Atheneum Books $17 (272p) ISBN 978-0-689-82827-0
Eight years after the publication of her groundbreaking Make Lemonade, Wolff has surpassed herself with this sequel. LaVaughn once again narrates in blank verse, but turns from Jolly's story (the unwed mother for whom she babysat) to her own....
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Virginia Euwer Wolff, Author Scholastic $4.5 (175p) ISBN 978-0-590-43146-0
A boy asks a former Special Ed classmate to the prom, and is bewildered when she backs out. Ages 12-up. (July)
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Virginia Euwer Wolff, Author Scholastic $16.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-590-89799-0
Wolff's (Make Lemonade) ambitious but ultimately unsuccessful novel explores prejudice via a baseball game between the sixth grade girls of Bear Creek Ridge and Barlow Road Grade Schools on May 28, 1949. ""Now that it's over, we are telling. We...
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Virginia Euwer Wolff, Author Henry Holt & Company $15.95 (249p) ISBN 978-0-8050-1571-3
At the beginning of summer, 12-year-old Allegra Leah Shapiro finds out that she has been selected as a finalist in a local violin competition. She spends the summer practicing Mozart's fourth violin concerto, preparing for the competition and...
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Virginia Euwer Wolff, Author, Full Cast, Read by Listening Library $22 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-52663-9
Wolff's novel about the sentiments of racism, patriotism and guilt that bubble over in two small Oregon towns after World War II here becomes a compelling, if sometimes hard to follow, audiobook. In 1949, the sixth-grade girls of Barlow Road Grade...
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Virginia Euwer Wolff, Author, Virginia Euwer Wolff, Author Scholastic Paperbacks $5.99 (208p) ISBN 978-0-590-48141-0
``Radiant with hope, this keenly observed and poignant novel is a stellar addition to YA literature,'' said PW in a starred review, praising Wolff's use of ``meltingly lyric blank verse'' to tell of two inner-city teenage girls struggling toward...
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