"I am telling you this just the way it went
with all the details I remember as they were,
and including the parts I'm not sure about.
You know, where something happened
but you aren't convinced
you understood it?
Other people would maybe tell it different
but I was there."
This is the first book in a planned trilogy about LaVaughn, a 14 year girl who lives with her mother in the projects and who learns at an early age that college is her way out. In order to earn money for her college fund, she needs a job and in looking for one finds an urgent request on the school bulletin board for a babysitter. LaVaughn is soon caught up in the lives of Jolly and her two children, Jeremy and Jilly. Life for the seventeen year old mother is not easy and LaVaughn feels guilty that she might be using the difficult situation to push herself toward a brighter future than the one that is sure to be Jolly’s. She does not intend to let Jolly and her children into her heart, but it happens.
I have read so many wonderful reviews of these fine works and yet, it has taken me too long to make them a priority. When the last one was published this year it made me more determined than ever to finally read them. I spent a weekend with LaVaughn and her mother, her thoughts, her inspirations and her fierce determination to make her life better through hard work and education.
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