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.
year: 2008, 2010
call number/section: 1000
subjects: dance, juvenile fiction, nightclubs, conduct of life, poverty, families, chicago, chicago (ill.), history, 20th century, juvenile fiction, fiction, fiction
Editions
Fletcher, Christine
Bloomsbury (2008)
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.
Schools: 10
Fletcher, Christine
Bloomsbury (2010)
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.
Schools: 1