True Believer

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Hardcover
Publish Date: February 2001
Language: English
Reading Level: 5.2
EAN: 9780689828270

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Overview

We have a multitude of obstacles to overcome here.
We’ll begin.

When LaVaughn was little, the obstacles in her life didn’t seem so bad. If she had a fight with Myrtle or Annie, it would never last long. If she was mad at her mother, they made up by bedtime. School was simple. Boys were buddies. Everything made sense.
But LaVaughn is fifteen and the obstacles aren’t going away anymore. Big questions separate her from her friends. Her mother is distracted by a new man. School could slip away from her so easily. And the boy who’s a miracle in her life acts just as if he’s in love with her. Only he’s not in love with her.
Returning to the characters and language she explored so profoundly in Make Lemonade, Virginia Euwer Wolff rises to the occasion in this astonishing second of three novels about LaVaughn, her family, and her community

Details

Pages: 272
Dimensions: 8.54 x 5.84 x 0.94 in
Lexile Score: 820
Interest Level: Upper Grade (UG)
Point Value: 6
ISBN: 0689828276

Awards

2006 California Young Reader Medal - Nominee (Young Adult)
2004 Evergreen Young Adult Book Award - Nominee (Young Adult)
2004 Iowa High School Book Award - Nominee (Young Adult)
2004 Nevada Young Readers' Award - Nominee (Young Adult)
2003 Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award - Nominee (Children's)
2003 Sequoyah Book Awards - Nominee (Young Adult)
2002 Children's Books of Distinction Awards - Nominee (Fiction)
2002 Jane Addams Children's Book Award - Honor Book (Books for Older Children)
2002 Michael L. Printz Award - Honor Book (Young Adults)
2002 Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award - Winner (Regional Book)
2002 Rhode Island Teen Book Award - Nominee (Ages 12 & Up)
2002 South Carolina Childrens, Junior and Young Adult Book Award - Nominee (Young Adult)
2002 Texas Lone Star Reading List - Commended (Young Adult)
2001 Golden Kite - Winner (Fiction)
2001 National Book Awards - Winner (Young People's Lit.)