Zucchini Zucchini The zucchini (, American English) or courgette (, British English) is a summer squash which can reach nearly in length, but is usually harvested when still immature at about . A zucchini is a thin-skinned cultivar of what in Britain and Ireland is referred to as a marrow. In South Africa, a zucchini is known as a baby marrow. Along with certain other squashes and pumpkins, the zucchini belongs to the species "Cucurbita pepo". It can be dark or light green. A related hybrid, the golden zucchini, is a deep yellow or orange color. In a culinary context, the
What I Call Life What I Call Life What I Call Life is a young adult novel by Jill Wolfson. It was first published in 2005 by Henry Holt and Company Publishers. The novel is about a teenage girl entering the social welfare system. She is taken away from her mother and placed in a group home. Cal Lavender is perfectly happy living her anonymous life, even if she does have to play mother to her own mother a whole lot more than an eleven-year-old should have to do. But when Cal's mother has one of her “unfortunate episodes” in the middle of the