MAKE LEMONADE

MAKE LEMONADE
(By) Virginia Euwer Wolff. New York: Holt (1993) 200p. $15.95
ISBN 0-8050-2228-7
The lives of two teenagers-one a high school drop-out and single
mother with two young children, the other, a fourteen-year-old
girl trying to earn money for college by babysitting-connect at a
crucial point, with bittersweet results.




TONING THE SWEEP
(By) Angela Johnson. New York: Orchard/Watts (1993) 103p. (A
Richard Jackson book) $13.95 ISBN 0-531-05476-4
Set in the New Mexican desert, this powerful, tender novel
concerns the complex relationship between three generations of
African-American women who are brought together by the
grandmother's terminal illness.


WINDLEAF
(By) Josepha Sherman. New York: Walker (1993) 121p. $14.95
ISBN 8027-8259-0
To rescue the girl he loves from her implacable father, young
Count Thierry finds himself engaged in a desperate, bitter
contest with the proud Lord of Faerie.


MALCOLM X: BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY
By Walter Dean Myers. New York: Scholastic (1993) 210p. $13.95
ISBN 0-590-46484-1
A gripping picture of a controversial figure who, despite great
odds, was able to turn his life around and use his considerable
intelligence in the struggle for justice.