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    <body><![CDATA[Christine Fletcher's novel about a taxi dancer during World War II is both painful and compelling. Ruby Jacinski is only fifteen when she drops out of school to work in a meat-packing plant so that her family can survive. When Ruby sees the chance to escape bottling pickled pigs feet she jumps at it...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39884736">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Fletcher, Christine. 2008. Ten Cents a Dance.<br/><br/>Ten Cents a Dance is a book I enjoyed. A great deal enjoyed. But it could make a movie that I would just love and adore. Set around 1940-1941, the novel follows the adventures and misadventures of a teen girl, Ruby Jacinski, who is charmed awa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36901310">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Reviewed by JodiG. for TeensReadToo.com<br/><br/>It is the 1940's and 15-year-old Ruby Jacinski has had to step in and support her family. Her father is dead and her mother is now too sick to work. The family has had to move to a poorer neighborhood and the only work Ruby can get is at the meat-pa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23416832">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Fletcher does a terrific job with a time and place not seen much (or ever) in YA lit.  Ruby is a vivid character, sassy, strong and also naive.  Her journey from innocent teenager to young woman trying to negotiate the gritty world of taxi dancing really kept me turning the pages.  The descriptive w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42845164">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Best Books for Young Adults: Realistic<br/><br/>I really liked this book. It is about a teenage girl who is living back during WWII in the Chicago suburbs. She is in a family with a single parent and siblings. Money is tight because her mother is too sick to work and Ruby's job at the factory is n...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56071011">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Strange WW2-era fiction in the vein of Judy Blundell's What I Saw and How I Lied. Despite Blundell's National Book Award, this is a much better book. She writes about the same uneasily gritty, romanticized, black-and-white glamour of the 1940s, but unlike Blundell, Fletcher manages to pull herself o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78775499">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[has got to be one of the best historical fictions I’ve read in a long, long time. The 1940s in Chicago setting is vibrant and comes to life with Fletcher’s amazing writing ability and paramount research, from the setting descriptions to the dialogue and just, everything. I love Ruby, and I love ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78569086">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Fascinating look at a teenager living in the 'yards' of Chicago at the beginning of WWI. Ruby, 16 years old, has been supporting her younger sister and widowed mother for months when local bad boy Paulie tells her she can make more money taxi dancing than working in a meat-packing plant. Ruby can't ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44515091">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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