Blog Post #1 Make Lemonade Reading Response:

     The book Make Lemonade written by Virginia Euwer Wolff is a very inspirational book. In this book, there was 2 main characters. One was a 17 year old teenage mother, named Jolly. And the 2nd main character is named La Vaughn. La Vaughn is 14,  and she is trying to save up money for college, so that's why she takes a job as a babysitter from Jolly. Throughout the book  Jolly's and La Vaughn's friendship grows.
     Jolly has a lot of problems in her life. One problem is that she cant provide a good home for her kids. Her house is so filthy, and not a good home for kids. Jolly works hard in her job trying to earn money to support her family and to pay La Vaughn for taking care of her kids. Jeremy and Jilly both have different fathers, and they both left Jolly, leaving her 2 kids to manage on her own. 
     La Vaughn didn't know what she was getting into when she took the job as a babysitter. She thought it was going easy, since she already had a babysitting job before. She didn't know she would be doing a lot of hard work. She ended up potty training Jeremy, cleaning the house, and babysitting for more hours,even though she wasn't getting paid. One day Jolly lost her job, and she wanted to go look for another one, so Jolly took care of her kids for free. The only reason she took the job in the first place was so she can earn money to go to college.
     La Vaughn ended up doing a lot for Jolly. For example, she made Jolly take health classes, in case something happens to her kids. That ended up being very useful because, her daughter Jilly was once close to dying until Jolly saved her life. Another example is that La Vaughn helped Jolly get back into high school since she never graduated. And since there is a day care inside the school, Jolly wont have to be paying anybody to take care of her kids.