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#1801138 in Books 2010-04-01 2010-03-30Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 7.82 x 25.78 x 6.52l, .56 #File Name: 1599904624368 pages0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Worth readingBy Kali the CatI enjoyed Ten Cents a Dance by Christine Fletcher very much. I have always been interested in the story of taxi dancers and their nightly display of illusion that they earned their living by. This book provides a little look into that. The lead character, Ruby, is 16 years old with more responsibility than any young teen should have to shoulder that ultimately drive her down the path of supposed easy money. I feltFrom BooklistWhen Ruby replaces her ailing mother in the tough, meatpacking Yards of 1940s Chicago, the feisty teen cant stand the jobs grimness and poverty wages: I spent eight hours a day stuffing hogs feet in jars, and we still ate beans. When handsome bad-boy Paulie urges her to try the StarlighWith 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-a girl paid ten cents to dance with any man-and soon becomes an expert in the art of "fishing" as she works her patrons for meals, clothes, even jewelry. Drawn ever deeper into the world of dan...
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