Lola Zola and the Lemonade Crush - Softcover

Winograd, Marcy; Hirtz, Jackie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1625176848 ISBN 13: 9781625176844

Publisher: INscribe Digital, 2014

Synopsis

Eleven-year-old Lola Zola panics when her parents announce, “We were laid-off.” “Fired?” “Not fired, Lola, laid-off—from the auto plant.” Either way, it’s bad news. How will Lola rescue her parents and tail-less cat Bowzer from the jobless blues? Then the idea of all ideas hits her square in the noggin like a lemon seed spit at one hundred miles per hour: a lemonade stand! Lola goes to work with the squirt and slurp assistance of her best friend, freckle-counting Melanie Papadakis. When Lola’s class rival—Charles Wembly III aka, Slime Bucket—hears what the twister sisters are up to, he opens his own limo-nade stand out of the back of his father’s limousine—right across the street from Lola. It’s bad enough Lola’s mother might go to work for Slime Bucket’s father—Mr. Stinky Breath. Now, Buck is stealing her customers with an aggressive ad campaign. A serious game of one-upsmanship, “corporate” chicanery, and worker rebellion ensues—turning the town of Mirage upside down and sideways. One exaggerated claim leads to another until word spreads that Lola’s lemonade has secret powers. Can it really erase wrinkles, cure allergies, and promote world peace? Intrigue and spy organizations run amok until closely kept secrets are revealed and Lola must decide what it means to win. Just when Lola is about to declare victory, she discovers Buck isn’t the enemy after all, and may even be a friend—if not a crush! Is this possible? Let’s just say anything can happen in a desert town called Mirage.

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About the Author

Marcy Winograd is a former congressional peace candidate and current community organizer, Marcy teaches English to special education students at a public high school in Los Angeles. In Marcy's class, students tell their life stories in poetry and debate animal testing and other charged issues in persuasive essays. Before introducing the writing of Pablo Neruda and Langston Hughes to her students, Marcy broadcast news on both commercial and public radio stations, such as Pacifica's KPFK and an NPR affiliate, where she earned three Golden Mike awards, the broadcast industry's top honors for writing and reporting. Marcy lives with her union-side labor lawyer husband Ira "Buddy" Gottlieb, texts with her stylish daughter Gina, and cuddles with her three rescue cats who compete for attention before bedtime. Sometimes, however, the whiskered ones must wait until morning because Marcy is also an insomniac who likes to write in the middle of the night. "It's quiet then, so my characters and I can think." Jackie Hirtz, M.S.Ed., is a former elementary school teacher, is a writer and writing coach. She discovered the power of the written word when she first began writing poetry at age nine, thanks to her wonderful grandmother Martha, who gave her all the encouragement in the world. Jackie's credits include Disney, The Los Angeles Times, and the Brentwood Media Group. She has also written for companies and non-profit organizations. Together, she and Marcy wrote for children's television, including Nickelodeon's animated series "Doug." Jackie believes that good books help make the world a better place because they open minds and hearts. When she’s not writing, reading or teaching, Jackie is training her puppy to become a registered therapy dog as well as a Reading Education Assistance Dog (R.E.A.D.™)

About this edition

• Publisher: INscribe Digital
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1625176848
• ISBN 13: 9781625176844
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 192