The Tenth Circle (2006) (edit title/settings)

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• Trixie Stone: The main character. A 9th grade, 14 year old girl who is the daughter of Laura and Daniel Stone who will do anything to get back her ex-boyfriend Jason Underhill whom she's in love with.
• Jason Underhill: Trixie's star hockey player ex-boyfriend. A popular senior.
• Daniel Stone: Father of Trixie who will do anything for her. A famous comic illustrator. Grew up in Alaska and ran away from home.
• Laura Stone: Mother of Trixie. Laura teaches about the aspects of Hell and is one of the most popular classes on campus.
• Mike Bartholemew: The head detective Trixie's case. Lost his daughter in a tragic car accident.
• Zephyr Santorelli-Weinstein: Trixie's rowdy best friend. Keeps track of all her sexual encounters with pink paper clips.
• Willie: A Yup'ik Eskimo.
• Janice: Trixie's counselor
• Moss Minton: Jason Underhill's best friend and hockey team mate.
• Seth: A student in Laura's class.
• Paulie: Add a description of this character.
• Joseph
• Aurora
• Dr. Roth
• Charles
• Walter
• Max
• Anjali
• Marita Soorenstad: The district attorney for the state. She helps Mike Bartholomew with his cases.
• Jen
• Lucifer
• Duncan
• Nelson
• Carl
• Minnie
• Edmonds
• Beatrice
• Ernestine: Mike Bartholomew's pet pig.
• Andi: a girl Trixie pretends to be
• Mrs. Gray

Quotes edit see section history

• “Nowhere in that list was the power to keep your child from growing up. If a superhero couldn't do it, how could any ordinary man?”

• “'It's crazy right? To love someone who's husrt you?''mitts crazier to think that someone who hurts you loves you.'”

  Trixie and Janice

• “"Dreams, Trixie thought, were like soap bubbles. You could look at them from a distance, and they were lovely. It's when you stuck your face too close that your eyes wound up stinging."”

  Trixie

• “"Because everyone lies," Zephyr replied. All teenagers knew this was true. The process of growing up was nothing more than figuring out what doors hadn't been slammed in your face.”

• “The problem was, you couldn't have one without the other. There couldn't be a bad guy unless there was a good guy to create the standard. And there couldn't be a good guy until a bad guy showed just how far off the path he might stray.”

• “There were some people who hit your life so hard, they left a stain on your future. Laura understood how you might spend your whole life waiting for that kind of man to come back.”

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Setting & Locations edit see section history

• Bethel High
• Alaska
• Maine
• Akiak
• Venice
• Tuluksak
• Winterfest
• Portland
• Yupiit
• Florida

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Glossary edit see section history

• Cikuq'erluni: A Yupiit word describing the kind of cold that makes a mug of water thrown into the air harden like glass before it hits the ground.

Themes & Symbolism edit see section history

• Family relationships: Describe this theme.
• Rape

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Jodi Picoult (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Classification edit see section history

• Library of Congress: PS3566.I372 T46 2006
• Dewey: 813.54

Notes for Parents edit see section history

Themes closer for Young Adults.

Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Literature & Fiction › Literary
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Contemporary

Movie Connections edit see section history

• The Tenth Circle (2008) (IMDb)

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