The Dark Card

by Amy Ehrlich

After her mother's death, Laura begins spending her evenings at the blackjack table in Atlantic City wearing her mother's silk dresses and carrying her sister's ID, but she soon becomes entangled with a professional gambler. Reprint.

Genres: Young Adult

Paperback

First published May 1, 1991

About the author

Amy Ehrlich is the author of more than thirty books for young readers and is also a winner of The Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award for her novel Joyride, which was also chosen Booklist Choice Best Book of the Decade. She lives on a farm in Northern Vermont with her husband and a great many domestic and agricultural animals.