Ten Cents a Dance
of Christine Fletcher (Goodreads Author)
Description
With her mother ill, it's up to fifteen-year-old Ruby Jacinski to support her family. But in the 1940s, the only opportunities open to a Polish-American girl from Chicago's poor Yards is a job in one of the meat packing plants. Through a chance meeting with a local tough, Ruby lands a job as a taxi dancer and soon becomes an expert in the art of "fishing": working her patrons for meals, cash, clothes, even jewelry. Drawn ever deeper into the world of dance halls, jazz, and the mob, Ruby gradually realizes that the only one who can save her is herself. A mesmerizing look into a little known world and era.
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- Format Hardcover
- Pages 356 pages
- Publisher Bloomsbury USA Childrens
- Publication Date April 1st 2008
- First Publication Not informed
- Language English
- ISBN 9781599901640
- Edition Not informed
- Category Other
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