Ten cents a dance /
Christine Fletcher.
- 1st U.S. ed.
- New York : Bloomsbury, 2008.
- 356 p ; 21 cm.
Booklist. Publisher's Weekly. School Library Journal.
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.
Young Adult Follett Library Resources.
1599901641 9781599901640 (hardcover)
2007050737
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.
Chicago (Ill.)--History--20th century--Juvenile fiction. Chicago (Ill.)--History--Fiction. Chicago (Ill.)--History--Fiction.