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The Chocolate Money
By Norton, Ashley Prentice
- ISBN
- 978-0-54784-004-8
- Publisher
- Mariner: Houghton Harcourt
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Reviewed on September 15, 2012
In 1978 Chicago, ten-year-old Bettina Ballentyne and her mother, Babs, live in a two-story “aparthouse” overlooking Lake Michigan. Babs occupies herself with spending her candy-empire inheritance, sleeping with other women’s husbands, throwing lavish theme parties, and regaling Bettina with the inappropriate details of her sexual trysts—when she pays any attention at all to her only ch...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
