Age
12+
Grade
10-12
Michael Z. Lewin
Cutting Loose
Hardcover
(Henry Holt and Co. (BYR) Sept. 15, 1999)
, First Edition edition
"Show some respect, young man...Just what was this young woman to you?" Jackie looked into the nurse's pinkface. "Nance was the best friend I ever had," she said. "The only friend I ever had."
Jackie is Jack Cross to everyone except Nance, a Wild West show trick shooter in turn-of-the-century New York who has her own secrets to hide. A slick-fielding second baseman with a good bat, Jackie must never drop her disguise if she is to continue to play professional baseball. But when Nance is murdered by a knife-thrower who does know Jackie's secret, the young ballplayer takes off on a transatlantic chase that changes her life.
Set on two continents, in three different time-periods, with a fascinating cast of characters including Buffalo Bill Cody, Jack the Ripper, and a musical star named Ruby the Red who has still another hidden life, Cutting Loose is a multi-layered page-turner filled with insights and surprises.
- ISBN
- 0805062254 / 9780805062250
- Pages
- 528
- Weight
- 30.4 oz.
- Dimensions
- 6.0 x 1.6
in.