| Description |
1 online resource (346 pages) |
| Summary |
It's 1950, and as the French Quarter of New Orleans simmers with secrets, seventeen-year-old Josie Moraine is silently stirring a pot of her own. Known among locals as the daughter of a brothel prostitute, Josie wants more out of life than the Big Easy has to offer. She devises a plan get out, but a mysterious death in the Quarter leaves Josie tangled in an investigation that will challenge her allegiance to her mother, her conscience, and Willie Woodley, the brusque madam on Conti Street. Josie is caught between the dream of an elite college and a clandestine underworld. New Orleans lures her in her quest for truth, dangling temptation at every turn, and escalating to the ultimate test. |
| Audience |
HL 590 Lexile. |
| Study Program |
Accelerated Reader AR UG 4.0 11 156976 |
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Accelerated Reader UG 4.0 11 156976 |
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Josie, the seventeen-year-old daughter of a French Quarter prostitute, is striving to escape 1950 New Orleans and enroll at prestigious Smith College when she becomes entangled in a murder investigation. |
| System Details |
Requires Boundless App. |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
| Subject |
Conduct of life -- Fiction.
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Prostitition -- Fiction.
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Murder -- Fiction.
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Mothers and daughters -- Fiction.
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Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction.
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Prostitution -- Juvenile fiction.
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Murder -- Juvenile fiction.
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Mothers and daughters -- Juvenile fiction.
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Detective and mystery stories.
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Mystery and detective stories.
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Conduct of life. |
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Detective and mystery stories. |
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Mothers and daughters. |
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Murder. |
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Prostitution. |
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New Orleans (La.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.
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New Orleans (La.) -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction.
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Louisiana -- New Orleans. |
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Electronic books. |
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History.
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Fiction.
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Juvenile works.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Sepetys, Ruta. Out of the Easy New York : Philomel Books, c2013 9780399256929 (DLC) 2012016062 (OCoLC)794306377 |
| ISBN |
9781101607800 : $29.97 |
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1101607807 : $29.97 |
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