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To dance at the Palais Royale
By McNaughton, Janet Elizabeth
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-77367-473-8
- Publisher
- Toronto : Stoddart, 1998, c1996.
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on May 1, 1999
Gr 7-Up In 1928, Aggie Maxwell, 17, leaves her home in Scotland to join her sister in domestic service in Toronto. Although eager to help free her family from a life of backbreaking poverty in a small coal-mining town, the teen feels uncertain and fearful. Her sister Emma, an abrupt and critical young woman, offers little comfort. Aggie does find some relief from her loneliness in a friendship with her employer's son and one of his female companions, but this friendship is complicated by the rigid class distinctions that separate them....Log In or Sign Up to Read More
