Ten Cents a Dance
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781599901640 (1599901641)
Publish date: April 1st 2008
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Pages no: 356
Edition language: English
One year in a girl's life in 1941 takes her from school, to meat-packing to taxi dancing and beyond. The story was fast-paced and fascinating. Ruby is a bit of a jerk, but she's a 16 year old in way over her head. It's a YA novel, so things get tied up a little too neatly, but it was a tasty and ...
please read my review at thebookbabesreads.blogspot.com
Ruby is an obnoxious brat who, as a fellow taxi dancer points out, never listens to advice. She manages to be a sympathetic protagonist anyway, in part because she’s vulnerable under her tough veneer and in part because it’s easy to see how blinded she is by the shiny things being dangled in her pat...
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