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©2016
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1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm
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The scene: New York City. The dazzling lights cast shadows that grow ever darker as the glitzy prosperity of the Roaring Twenties screeches to a halt. Enter a cast of familiar characters: a young girl, Samantha White, returning after being sent away by her cruel stepmother, the Queen of the Follies, years earlier; her father, the King of Wall Street, who survives the stock market crash only to suffer a strange and sudden death; seven street urchins, brave protectors for a girl as pure as snow; and a mysterious stock ticker that holds the stepmother in its thrall, churning out ticker tape imprinted with the wicked words "Another . . . More Beautiful . . . KILL."
Ages 10 and up
Grade 5 and up
480L
Decoding demand: 86 (very high) Semantic demand: 93 (very high) Syntactic demand: 37 (low) Structure demand: 86 (very high)