TY  - BOOK
AU  - O'Neill,Heather
TI  - Lullabies for little criminals: a novel 
SN  - 0060875070
PY  - 2006///
CY  - New York
PB  - Harper Perennial
KW  - Teenage girls
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Fathers and daughters
KW  - Single parents
KW  - Foster children
KW  - Foster home care
KW  - Motherless families
KW  - Drug addicts
KW  - Coming of age
KW  - Adolescence
KW  - Pimps
KW  - Street life
KW  - Montréal (Québec)
KW  - Bildungsromans
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes bibliographical references
N2  - "Heather O'Neill's first novel is a story of a young life on the streets - and the strength, wits, and luck necessary for survival." "At thirteen, Baby vacillates between childhood comforts and adult temptation: still young enough to drag her dolls around in a vinyl suitcase yet old enough to know more than she should about urban cruelties. Motherless, she lives with her father, Jules, who takes better care of his heroin habit than he does of his daughter. Baby's gift is a genius for spinning stories and for cherishing the small crumbs of happiness that fall into her lap. But her blossoming beauty has captured the attention of a charismatic and dangerous local pimp who runs an army of sad, slavishly devoted girls - a volatile situation even the normally oblivious Jules cannot ignore. And when an escape disguised as betrayal threatens to crush Baby's spirit, she will ultimately realize that the power of salvation rests in her hands alone."--Jacket
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