True Believer
Living in the inner city amidst guns and poverty, fifteen-year-old LaVaughn learns from old and new friends, and inspiring mentors, that life is what you make it--an occasion to rise to.
Living in the inner city amidst guns and poverty, fifteen-year-old LaVaughn learns from old and new friends, and inspiring mentors, that life is what you make it--an occasion to rise to.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780689828270 (0689828276)
Publish date: February 1st 2001
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pages no: 272
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
Teen,
Academic,
School,
Cultural,
Realistic Fiction,
Romance,
Contemporary,
Poetry,
Glbt,
High School
Series: Make Lemonade (#2)
Re-read. Strong and believable characters make this novel in verse stand out. There's a strong undercurrent of love which redeems the grimmer moments. I liked the subplot about LaVaughn's friends being drawn into a Christian chastity movement, and I found the rest of it right on.
Re-read. It's so easy to tip over the edge, writing books in verse. VEW does not, she stays close to the bone, spare and even grim but always hopeful.
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