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Title	:	Ten Cents a Dance
Author	:	Christine Fletcher
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 356 pages
Published	:	April 1st 2008 by Bloomsbury USA Childrens
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. Young Adult. Teen. Fiction. Romance

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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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Original Title:	Ten Cents a Dance
ISBN:	1599901641 (ISBN13: 9781599901640)
Edition Language:	English

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Not what I was expecting, a bit too long, but a very quick read. This book illustrates how Ruby transitions from girl to woman and not in the way you would want your daughter to experience life. Her mother cannot work due to severe arthritis, her Pop is dead, and so she has to take a low paying job in the meatpacking industry. They are barely surviving with her wages. She has a crush on Paulie, the local bad boy, who tells her about a job teaching dance to "gentlemen." Considering that she has a

Nicole HoelzelIndependent Book Review Dancing, money, rebellion, strange men, expensive dresses and responsibility make up the life of Ruby Jacinski, in Christine Fletchers Ten Cents a Dance. Fifteen year old Ruby yearns to get out of the yards and as the only one of her family that can work, she strives for just that. Ruby takes bad boy, and soon to be boyfriend, Pauls advice and starts dancing with strange men for money, lots of money. This book left me wanting more when I set it down, even

I thought this was an absolutely fantastic novel! I never wanted to put it down. I absolutely loved the main character, Ruby. It has been a long time since I read a novel with such a strong, outspoken, independent spitfire of a female lead! She knows when to speak up and she's not afraid to slug someone who gets in her way, yet she has her heart in the right place. She had me cheering for her the whole way. Another thing I loved was the author's descriptions. Christine Fletcher has a gift for

Ten Cents a Dance was definitely interesting. The idea of a taxi dancer was intriguing. I couldn't just forget about and leave it unfinished. But there were a lot of problems. First off, the main character, Ruby. She wasn't a Mary Sue, but she was brave to the point of foolishness. She needed to learn when to back down and when to stand up. She's also racist. She runs away when a Chinese man wants a dance and jokes and feels proud about it later. Her friends try to help her, but she doesn't

Ten Cents a Dance is a novel both fantastic and chilling, and overall throughly enjoyable.It tells the story of a young girl growing up in the early 20th century, a time during which gangsters, or "mad dogs" looked up to the likes of Al Capone, and "savvy" girls could earn their wages at "taxi dance halls", earning change for dancing with men. The main character was everything I love about heroines all rolled into one. She was spunky, lively, tender hearted and brave. To watch her fall in love

Bad boys and secrets are both hard to keep...So it says on the cover of this coming-of-age novel set in the early 1940's. When her mother loses her job due to arthritis, Ruby Jacinski drops out of school to work in the Chicago stockyards. (Do I need to explain that this is dirty, smelly work?) Soon she is saved from this when she gets a job at the Starlight dance "school" as a taxi-dancer, dancing with men for ten cents a dance. Suddenly her work involves ball gowns and music and it seems life

I really enjoyed this book, which is why I read it in one day. I think I might have managed to cook dinner at some point, but otherwise I couldn't put this down. This one is not just for young adults.