Virginia Euwer Wolff is a prize-winning American

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 author

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 of children's literature

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, born in Portland, Oregon

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 25 Aug 1937. She attended an all-girls' school called St. Helen's Hall (now Oregon Episcopal School

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), before attending Smith College

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. She married Arthur Richard Wolff in 1959. They divorced in 1976.

Among other notable books, she is the author of the award-winning series, Make Lemonade. Make Lemonade is a series about a 14-year-old girl named LaVaughn, who babysits for the children of a 17-year-old single mother. The series has three books. The sequel, True Believer

True Believer (novel)

True Believer is a young adult verse novel written by Virginia Euwer Wolff. In Publishers Weekly, the reviewer noted that Wolff writes with "delicacy and sensitivity".-Characters:...

, won the National Book Award for Young People's Literature.

Books

• This Full House First ed. New York: HarperCollins Children's Books 2009. ISBN 9780061583049
• True Believer
  True Believer (novel)
  True Believer is a young adult verse novel written by Virginia Euwer Wolff. In Publishers Weekly, the reviewer noted that Wolff writes with "delicacy and sensitivity".-Characters:...
  
  First ed. New York: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2001. ISBN 0689852886 (and many other editions)
  • Award: 2001 National Book Award
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     in the Young People's Literature category
  • Award: Best Children's Books 2001 by Publishers Weekly.
  • Junior Library Guild Selection
• Bat 6 Holt, Rinehart and Winston 1998 ISBN 0030662796
  • Review, Kirkus 05/01/1998
  • Oregon Reads 2009 Selection
• Make Lemonade. First ed. , Henry Holt and Co. , 1993 (and many other editions)
  • Citation: American Library Association Notable Children's Book
  • Award: American Library Association (ALA) Best Book for Young Adults
  • Award: Booklist Top of the List winner
• The Mozart Season. 1st ed. New York: Holt, 1991.
  • Award: 2011 Children's Literature Association
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     Phoenix Award (presented annually to the author of a children's or young adult book, originally published in English twenty years earlier, that did not win a major award at the time of its publication)
• Probably Still Nick Swansen. 1st ed. New York: H.Holt, 1988.
• Rated PG New York: St. Martin's Press, 1981.