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Lullabies for little criminals : a novel / Heather O'Neill.

by O'Neill, Heather.

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Harper Perennial, c2006.

Abused children -- Fiction.

Teenage girls -- Fiction.

Abandoned children -- Fiction

Street life -- Fiction.

Fathers and daughters -- Fiction.

Single fathers -- Fiction.

Montréal (Québec) -- Fiction.

Canada reads ; 2007.

9780062468475 (2016 Harper Perennial trade pbk.)

9780060875077 (2006 Harper Perennial softcover)

0060875070 (2006 Harper Perennial softcover)

330, 16 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

Includes "P.S. Insights, interviews and more...", (1-16 pp.).

"...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 the power of salvation rests in her hands alone." --Back cover.

Winner of the Canada Reads Competition, 2007.

Canadian fiction.

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