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Library Journal
Reviewed on June 16, 2011
Author of the What I Saw and How I Lied, the 2008 National Book Award winner, Blundell gifts readers with another story of a young woman forced by circumstance to grow up too soon, this one set in 1950s New York. Kit Corrigan wants to be a dancer, but the city is unkind to this teenaged runaway from Providence, RI. Enter Nate Benedict, the father ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
on onJune 16, 2011 | Booksmack!
Author of the What I Saw and How I Lied, the 2008 National Book Award winner, Blundell gifts readers with another story of a young woman forced by circumstance to grow up too soon, this one set in 1950s New York. Kit Corrigan wants to be a dancer, but the city is unkind to this teenaged runaway from Providence, RI. Enter Nate Benedict, the father ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
School Library Journal
Reviewed on March 1, 2011
Gr 7 Up—November 1950 in New York City: a time and place in which everything changes for Kit Corrigan. After dropping out of high school in Providence to pursue dancing and acting, a breakup with Billy Benedict, a college boy and the son of a powerful mob lawyer, propels her to the Big Apple. A fraternal triplet whose mother died in childbirth, Kit has been raised by a working-class father with the sometime help of his sister, Delia. Her brother, Jamie, and Billy have enlisted in the Korean War. I...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2011
When gangster Nate Benedict gets underage chorus girl Kit a job and an apartment, she knows he'll want something in return. That...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
