Everything you need to understand or teach True Believer by Virginia Euwer Wolff.
True Believer is the story of fifteen-year-old Verna LaVaughn's coming-of-age and deales with themes of love and loyalty, in a poverty-stricken and crime-riddled neighborhood.
Picking up where Wolff's Make Lemonade left off, Verna LaVaughn is fifteen years old and lives in a dangerous, run-down and poor neighborhood. Although many kids around her succumb to life on the streets, Verna LaVaughn, who just goes by LaVaughn, is saving money to go to...