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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)
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- 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
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“I'm so glad we became friends.”
Rose
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The truth was, we were always in a sort of tentative balance with someone. Friends, even the best of friends, were always in danger of destroying each other. Alliances shifted and changed. People came together and fell apart.
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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
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- Cecil Castellucci (Author)
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