The Lemonade War Quotes

“sit back and watch the money roll in.”
― Jacqueline Davies, The Lemonade War

“said, “You spelled lemonade wrong. It’s an o, not an i.” But she thought, Oh, good! A lemonade stand. My favorite thing to do! The boys didn’t say anything. Jessie saw Evan’s mouth tighten up. “You want me to make the lemonade?” she asked.”
― Jacqueline Davies, The Lemonade War

“It’s like you miss a year of your life,”
― Jacqueline Davies, The Lemonade War

“Tommy Pawley, who was two years old, pulled down his bathing suit and peed right on the lawn.”
― Jacqueline Davies, The Lemonade War

“had sand in all the places where her skin rubbed together: between her toes, behind her ears, and between the cheeks of her bottom.”
― Jacqueline Davies, The Lemonade War

“started to write on the palm of his hand.”
― Jacqueline Davies, The Lemonade War

“the time he got home, he had it all figured out. He looked in the kitchen trash and found the three Ziploc bags, inside out and sticky with lemonade. He shook the fruit bowl and noticed how few fruit flies took to the air. If he’d had the right materials, he would have dusted the cooler for fingerprints. But there was really no need for that. He knew what he would have found: Jessie was all over this one.”
― Jacqueline Davies, The Lemonade War

“His mom was strong, but this was a two-person job.”
― Jacqueline Davies, The Lemonade War

“A thin spider web of sweat draped itself over his forehead, spreading into his hair.”
― Jacqueline Davies, The Lemonade War

“Dissolution of a unit, an organization, or a group of organizations. The Justice Department sometimes forces the breakup of a large corporation into several smaller companies.”
― Jacqueline Davies, The Lemonade War

“to her. Grandma had been over and Evan needed help with his math homework. He had that frustrated, screwed-up-mouth look that he sometimes got with math or spelling or writing reports. Mom called it his “he’s-a-gonna-blow!” look. But Grandma couldn’t help him”
― Jacqueline Davies, The Lemonade War

“standing”
― Jacqueline Davies, The Lemonade War

“Evan lay on his back in the dark, throwing the baseball up in a straight line and catching it in his bare hands. Thwap. Thwap.”
― Jacqueline Davies, The Lemonade War

“club before. It had seemed like Becky was being so nice to her. “That should have been your first clue,” Evan told Jessie later. Becky made extra buttons for Jessie and even helped tape them all over her shirt. And she made a special membership card for her and even a WHJ sign that she helped Jessie glue onto her Writers’ Workshop folder.”
― Jacqueline Davies, The Lemonade War

“Location”
― Jacqueline Davies, The Lemonade War

“(Evan should have used a fat marker instead of a skinny felt-tipped pen. Everybody knew that!)”
― Jacqueline Davies, The Lemonade War

“Sears”
― Jacqueline Davies, The Lemonade War

“Jessie reached for 'Ten Bright Ideas to Light Up Your Sales'. It was on her bedside table, right next to 'Charlotte's Web'. Jessie's hand hovered. She looked longingly at Wilbur and Fern watching Charlotte hanging b a thread.
But this was war, and she couldn't stop to read for fun.”
― Jacqueline Davies, The Lemonade War

“economy.”
― Jacqueline Davies, The Lemonade War

“to listen for real.”
― Jacqueline Davies, The Lemonade War

“staring at Scott”
― Jacqueline Davies, The Lemonade War

“All the nervousness she’d been feeling about skipping to fourth grade suddenly burbled up inside her.”
― Jacqueline Davies, The Lemonade War