Everything you need to understand or teach Ten Cents a Dance by Christine Fletcher.
Ten Cents a Dance is a novel by writer Christine Fletcher. In this novel, Ruby Jacinski is a fifteen-year-old girl who recently quit school to take a job to support her family. Ruby's job does not pay enough to cover her family's living expenses, let alone their past rent and her mother's medical bills stemming from her rheumatoid arthritis. Therefore, when Ruby hears that she could make fifty dollars a week...