Virginia Euwer Wolff
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This article is about the American children's author. For the British modernist author, see Virginia Woolf. For the British rock band, see Virginia Wolf.
Virginia Euwer Wolff (born August 25, 1937) is an American author of children's literature.[1][2] Her award-winning series Make Lemonade features a 14-year-old girl named LaVaughn, who babysits for the children of a 17-year-old single mother. There are three books. The second, True Believer, won the 2001 National Book Award for Young People's Literature.[3] The second and third, This Full House (2009), garnered Kirkus Reviews starred reviews.[lower-alpha 1] She was the recipient of the 2011 NSK Neustadt Prize for Children's Literature, honoring her entire body of work.[4]