Jolly is seventeen. She can’t actually spell. She doesn’t possess much of a job. And she provides two little kids from two different, absent fathers.

Jolly knows she can’t cope with Jilly and Jeremy simply by herself. Therefore she content a see on the school ­bulletin plank: BABYSITTER NEEDED BAD. No-one replies but Verna LaVaughn, who’s just fourteen. How much help can she end up being?

For a while, Jolly, Jilly, Jeremy, and LaVaughn are an amazing family. After that LaVaughn will take the first actions toward building her own upcoming, and Jolly starts the long, sluggish procedure for turning the lemons of her life into lemonade.

“Powerfully moving.” -Kirkus Reviews, pointer

“Radiant with hope.” -Publishers Regular, starred review