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Christine Fletcher
Dear Librarian, TEN CENTS A DANCE, my second young adult novel, is packed with soul-shaking jazz, killer '40s style, and the passions of a young generation on the eve of war. With her mother ill, it's up to fifteen-year-old Ruby Jacinski to support her family. Which is tough going in 1941 Chicago...until Ruby meets neighborhood bad boy, Paulie. Soon, she's getting paid to dance with lonely men—and learning how to "fish" them for cash, clothes, even jewelry. As long as Ruby's family doesn't find out what she's doing, her problems—and theirs—are solved. But secrets and bad boys are hard to keep...especially when swinging with the hepcats turns into swimming with the sharks. Writing this book, I practically lived in the library. In appreciation, I'm giving five signed copies of TEN CENTS A DANCE exclusively to librarians. Visit www.christinefletcherbooks.com to read an excerpt, and enter to win! Christine Fletcher
Ten Cents a Dance / Christine Fletcher / Bloomsbury USA Children's Books / Hardcover; 368 Pages
Price: $16.95 / ISBN: 978-1599901640 / Published: April, 2008 Christine Fletcher is one of our featured authors this week. Click here to view her reader comments and feel free to use them in your newsletters. |