This Full House, Virginia Euwer Wolff
This Full House, Virginia Euwer Wolff
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This Full House

Author: Virginia Euwer Wolff

Narrator: Heather Alicia Simms

Unabridged: 7 hr 41 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/27/2009


Synopsis

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.

About The Author

Virginia Euwer Wolff is the distinguished author of six books for young readers. Her books have won the National Book Award, the Michael L. Printz Honor, the Golden Kite Award, the International Reading Association Children’s Book Award, the Jane Addams Book Award, the PEN-West Book Award, and the Oregon Book Award, among many other honors. Critics have called make lemonade and true believer, the previous two books in this trilogy, “triumphant”–(School Library Journal), “transcendent”–(ALA Booklist), and “groundbreaking”–(Publishers Weekly). Virginia Euwer Wolff lives and works in Oregon City, Oregon.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Lee Anne on March 26, 2009

Wow. Remember when the book Hannibal came out, and everyone was mad at Thomas Harris for what he'd done with the Hannibal Lecter and Clarice characters? He replied, in effect, that they were his characters, and he could do with them what he wanted. I agreed with him, for the most part (although even......more

Goodreads review by Leah on February 21, 2009

I was in summer camp and desperate for books when, out of desperation, I borrowed a book written in blank verse and decided to give it a try. Wow! Virginia Euwer Wolff is a magician with language; after reading her books, you almost feel like all emotionally powerful books need to be written in blan......more

Goodreads review by Melody on March 13, 2009

I'm emotionally invested in LaVaughn & Jolly. I wanted to love this book, but I only like it. It's achingly contrived in parts, although it retains the emotional immediacy of the earlier books. I just couldn't suspend my disbelief enough to buy the central plot point, and I'm sad about that.......more

Goodreads review by Jennifer on December 30, 2008

Reviewed by Sally Kruger aka "Readingjunky" for TeensReadToo.com THIS FULL HOUSE is the conclusion to the MAKE LEMONADE trilogy by Virginia Euwer Wolff. It will be on store shelves in January of 2009. It has been fifteen years since the first book about LaVaughn and Jolly. Having just finished the Ad......more

Goodreads review by Jami on May 08, 2010

This was a nice conclusion to the Make Lemonade series, but it didn't really feel like the same caliber as True Believer. It was nice to get to see LaVaughn move forward with her dreams and stay true to her goals. A few things bothered me about the book, though. For one, LaVaughn is now a 17-year-old......more