'A spare, beautifully crafted depiction of a fourteen-year-old whose goal of escaping poverty is challenged by friendship with a single teenage mother. These girls could be from more than one ethnic group and almost any inner city. Powerfully moving.' Kirkus'This is a book you must read. It will change you, maybe a little, maybe a lot. It doesn't matter. Just read it. That's all I ask.' Sara Windgate Gray (18), In Brief

 

There are 176 pages in this book. This book was published 2003 by Faber & Faber .

Virginia Euwer Wolff lives in Oregon City, Oregon and is currently at work on a third and final book about LaVaughn. She is also the author of three other books for young adults: Probably Still Nick Swansen, The Mozart Season, and Bat 6.