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From Rags To Riches

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Reads 16,749
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Parts 29
Time 3h 19m

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We've all complained about being poor or broke at least once in our lives. But do you really know what poor is? Have you gone days without food? Is your entire family in debt? Is your mother sick and your father dead? Well this is the story of Liz O'Connor. She knows what poor is. She has to go out in the streets everyday with her siblings begging or performing in order to get some money for that night's meal. Her ten other siblings perform in different parts of the city. The thing she does most to get money? Singing. 

When a audition for Can You Rock Out? comes around Liz can't believe her luck. Will she be able to actually get on the show and win the record deal and $5,000,000 cash prize that will take her family out of debt? The only problem is: she needs a band in order to enter and the competition is across the country. Will she take the slim chance she has of winning the competition? Or will her dreams catch fire and burn?

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