How Janice Day Won

A dime meant supper—but a drunken man snatches it from little Sophie Narnay on a Polktown street. Janice Day catches the child before she falls, then hears the words that turn her anger to sympathy: “He’s all right when he’s sober.”

On a spring afternoon in the lakeside town of Polktown, a newly licensed bar at the Lake View Inn is bringing a troubling change to the streets. Janice, a spirited girl who loves helping her neighbors, learns that Sophie’s family is struggling: her father has been drinking, and the stolen dime was meant to buy meal for the household. Janice wants to help Sophie and her family—but the trouble reaches beyond one doorstep, and the town has allowed the bar to open. Can one girl make Polktown see what its new bar is costing its families?

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