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Fletcher, Christine, 1964-

Ten cents a dance / Christine Fletcher. - 1st U.S. ed. - New York : Bloomsbury, 2008. - 356 p ; 21 cm.

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In 1941 Chicago, fifteen-year-old Ruby, a Polish-American girl from the slums, leaves her meat-packing plant job to be a "taxi" dancer, paid a dime apiece to dance with men in a dance hall, and becomes entangled with the mob.

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ISBN: 1599901641 9781599901640 (hardcover)

LCCN: 2007050737

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Conduct of life--Juvenile fiction.
Dance--Juvenile fiction.
Families--Illinois--Chicago--Juvenile fiction.
Nightclubs--Juvenile fiction.
Poverty--Juvenile fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Juvenile fiction.
Conduct of life--Fiction.
Dance--Fiction.
Family life--Illinois--Chicago--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Nightclubs--Fiction.
Poverty--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Fiction.
Conduct of life--Fiction.
Dance--Fiction.
Family life--Chicago (Ill.)--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Nightclubs--Fiction.
Poverty--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Fiction.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Chicago (Ill.)--History--20th century--Juvenile fiction.
Chicago (Ill.)--History--Fiction.
Chicago (Ill.)--History--Fiction.

LC Class. No.: PZ7.F62778 / Ten 2008

Dewey Class. No.: [Fic]