Carbone, Elisa. Last Dance on Holladay Street.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)

CARBONE, Elisa. Last Dance on Holladay Street. 196p. CIP. Knopf. 2005. Tr $15.95. ISBN 0-375-82896-6; PLB $17.99. ISBN 0-375-92896-0. LC 2004010314.

Gr 8 Up--The only world that 13-year-old Eva Wilkins has ever known is her quiet life on the Colorado prairie with Daddy Walter and Mama Kate. But now that they have both died, her only option is to go live with file mother who gave her up at birth. She makes her first trip to Denver all alone and is wide-eyed with astonishment at all the people and buildings. But she is more shocked when she learns that her mother is a prostitute in a well-to-do brothel on notorious Holladay Street, and, even more, that her mother's skin …