Virginia Euwer Wolff

These are the books by Virginia Euwer Wolff that are reviewed on this site:

Make Lemonade

Two young girls caught in the poverty trap both realize that life has handed them a lemon.

True Believer

Verna La Vaughn, still sees college as her way out of the poverty trap, but finds it's easy to slip on a banana skin if you keep your eyes too firmly fixed on the horizon.