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Rose has given up. She's given up on friendship, on happiness, on life being anything other than black, black, black. Yrena wants out. She's a dancer who doesn't want to dance, a prisoner in her own home, a resident of New York who never gets to see the city. To Rose, Yrena has always been... read more
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Rose Sees Red is a heartwarming tale of one girl's journey in America. 2 girls meet on one eventful night. Both love to dance, however one hates it and one loves it. They come from such different backgrounds, Rose is from America, and Yrena, her neighbor, is from Russia. Can they see past... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)
Characters/People edit
- Rose: Ballerina students, teenager who lives in a Manhattan apartment neighboring a Soviet family whose daughter she spies through the window.
- Yrena: Rose's neighbor who becomes an unexpected friend and results in an unexpected series of events.
- Daisy: Once a friend of Rose's---but not anymore.
- Maurice Tibbets: A fellow dancer and the Fine Arts School
- Caitlin: One of the triplets at the Fine Arts School - at the school for music
- Todd: Rose's brother and master D&D player
- Caleb: One of the triplets at the Fine Arts School - at the school for drama
- Tammy: Add a description of this character.
- Elliot Waldman
- Ms. Zina
- Callisto: One of the triplets.
Quotes edit
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“I'm so glad we became friends.”
Rose -
“It was ironic how she said she was all about the strange and different. That's what she liked best in the magazines. But there it was something contained and frozen on the pages, in its assigned role of the weird. It couldn't get loose and do something unexpected. She obviously couldn't stand someone in real life going off script.”
Rose -
“It was comforting to know that you could always find something in common with someone else.”
Rose -
“Were we all like that? Were we all trying to change how we looked on the outside to match how we felt on the inside? Were we all trying to change how people saw us?”
Rose -
“I was the stars and the moon and the sky. I was air. I had been bitten by the evening and my heart went straight to my feet.”
Rose -
“When I dance, I feel as though my heart is bigger than my body. And that I am giving it back to everyone who is alive.”
Rose -
“I think some people just don't feel for the whole world," Caleb said. "It's hard to feel for the whole world," Yrena observed. "It's hard to even feel for your friends and your family sometimes," I said. "But that doesn't mean you shouldn't try to.”
Rose
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First Sentence edit
I was black inside so I took everything black.
Table of Contents edit
Walk Down the Hill
Notes from the Playground
School Sucks
Red Means Stop, Green Means Go
Audition
East Meets West
Party on the Steps
The Rock
Night Birds
Clamshell
The City Never Sleeps
Staten Island Ferry
All Night Jam
The March
The Girls Who Came in from the Cold
Authors & Contributors edit
- Cecil Castellucci (Author)
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