Over the summer I read a couple of books. One of the books that I read was called "Make Lemonade" by Virginia Euwer Wolf. This book was about a young girl who really wanted to go to college and ended up working as a babysitter for a teen mom so that she could achieve that goal. In this entry I am going to talk about some of the elements of story in the book.

First, I am going to write about the plot. In the beginning of the book, the main character LaVaughn really wanted to go to college. She found a poster of potential jobs that she could take, and she chose babysitting. She ended up going to babysit a teen moms children. In the middle of the book when LaVauhgn is babysitting the two kids and the kids mom comes back home with blood all over her face. LaVAughn calls her mom and her mom looses faith in her. In the end of the book Jolly (the mom of the two kids) gets her life back on track and LaVaughn realizes that she has done a good job. Plot was one of the elements of story int he book.

The next element of story that I am going to write about is character traits. LaVaughn is the type of girl who is very determined. One example of that is that she really wants to go to college. Because LaVaughn wants to go to college so badly, she gets a job to help her mom pay for her education. LaVaughn's mom is a person that I would describe as someone who under estimates people. One example of this is when LaVaughn calls her mom over because Jolly was being irresponsible. Her mom was doubting Jolly because she was irresponsible and didn't want LaVaughn to babysit for them anymore, but in the end she decided to be more confident and everything turned out to be okay.

To sum it all up, plot and character traits were some of the examples of elements in the book that I read this summer.  i liked it because I like reading books that are in the realistic fiction genre. It was a very good book, and I recommend it to people who like realistic fiction.