{"product_id":"9780545221269","title":"Strings Attached","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom National Book Award winner Judy Blundell, the tale of a sixteen-year-old girl caught in a mix of love, mystery, Broadway glamour, and Mob retribution in 1950 New York. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Kit Corrigan arrives in New York City, she doesn't have much. She's fled from her family in Providence, Rhode Island, and she's broken off her tempestuous relationship with a boy named Billy, who's enlisted in the army. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe city doesn't exactly welcome her with open arms. She gets a bit part as a chorus girl in a Broadway show, but she knows that's not going to last very long. She needs help--and then it comes, from an unexpected source.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNate Benedict is Billy's father. He's also a lawyer involved in the mob. He makes Kit a deal--he'll give her an apartment and introduce her to a new crowd. All she has to do is keep him informed about Billy . . . and maybe do him a favor every now and then. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs she did in her National Book Award-winning What I Saw and How I Lied, Judy Blundell traps readers in a web of love, deceit, intrigue, and murder. The result? One stunner of a novel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Scholastic, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47025966317808,"sku":"9780545221269","price":12.85,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780545221269_p0.jpg?v=1763713355","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780545221269","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}