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* WOLFF, Virginia Euwer. True Believer. 272p. S & S/Atheneum. Feb. 2001. RTE $17. ISBN 0-689-82827-6. LC number unavailable.
Gr 6 Up--LaVaughn has matured since readers met her in Make Lemonade (Holt, 1993). She is now 15 and questions everything, from her faith, her slowly eroding friendship with Myrtle and Annie because of their religious beliefs, her sexuality, and her feelings for an old friend who has reentered her life and has secrets of his own. LaVaughn has one main goal--to go to college and escape the housing projects. Her strong relationship with her mother and the high morals and far-reaching academic goals that the woman has instilled in the teen inspire …