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* EmptyBedroomGrieving: Carl and Anne have kept Amy's room exactly the way she left it. No one is allowed in, making it the perfect place for Lauren and Sierra to hide their stolen goods.
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* ShrineToTheFallen: Carl and Anne have kept Amy's room exactly the way she left it. No one is allowed in, making it the perfect place for Lauren and Sierra to hide their stolen goods.
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Lauren wants to help families with autistic kids who doesn't have as much money as her own, so she recruits Sierra in a plan to [[JustLikeRobinHood steal things and then sell them to raise money]].
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Lauren wants to help families with autistic kids who doesn't don't have as much money as her own, so she recruits Sierra in a plan to [[JustLikeRobinHood steal things and then sell them to raise money]].
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Lauren Collins (who narrates in prose) is a well-off seventh-grader in UsefulNotes/{{Philadelphia}} whose fourteen-year-old autistic brother Ryan has just been sent to the Piedmont Therapeutic Boarding School, where she's worried he'll be miserable. Sierra (who narrates in free verse) has been taken away from her alchoholic mom by CPS and placed with foster parents in Lauren's neighborhood. Lauren wants to help families with autistic kids who doesn't have as much money as her own, so she recruits Sierra in a plan to [[JustLikeRobinHood steal things and then sell them to raise money]].
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Lauren Collins (who narrates in prose) is a well-off seventh-grader in UsefulNotes/{{Philadelphia}} whose fourteen-year-old autistic brother Ryan has just been sent to the Piedmont Therapeutic Boarding School, where she's worried he'll be miserable. Sierra (who narrates in free verse) has been taken away from her alchoholic mom by CPS and placed with foster parents in Lauren's neighborhood.
Lauren wants to help families with autistic kids who doesn't have as much money as her own, so she recruits Sierra in a plan to [[JustLikeRobinHood steal things and then sell them to raise money]].
Lauren wants to help families with autistic kids who doesn't have as much money as her own, so she recruits Sierra in a plan to [[JustLikeRobinHood steal things and then sell them to raise money]].
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** Ryan rubs his T-shirt and flicks his fingers. When he was in seventh grade, he was at a horrible school called the Keller School that tried to suppress his movements and force him to make eye contact, but Lauren's parents assure her that Keller is more progressive.
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** Ryan rubs his T-shirt and flicks his fingers. When he was in seventh grade, he was at a horrible school called the Keller School that tried to suppress his movements and force him to make eye contact, but Lauren's parents assure her that Keller Piedmont is more progressive.
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* BadMoodRetreat: Ryan's old occupational therapist, Jenna, helped him set up a calming corner in the basement with a fishtank and a perfectly tuned piano that took forever to get right.
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* BadMoodRetreat: Ryan's old occupational therapist, Jenna, helped him set up a calming corner in the basement with a fishtank and a perfectly tuned piano that took forever to get right. Lauren worries he'll have a hard time coping at Piedmont, where he won't have his own corner.
* DaddyDidntShow: Sierra joins a support group for teens with alcoholic parents, where her classmate Emma Walker describes how her dad lied and said he was too sick to attend her school play, when really he was drunk.
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* DaddyDidntShow: Sierra joins a support group for teens with alcoholic parents, where her classmate Emma Walker describes how her dad lied and said he was too sick to attend her school play, when really he was drunk.
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* TitleDrop: From one of Sierra's chapters: "I wonder if no warning/or joke or anything/can distract her/from stealing/then selling/every shiny thing."
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* CopeByCreating: Carl took up gardening after the death of his eight-year-old daughter Amy from cancer. Watching and participating in the cycle of life makes him feel better about it.
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* ShrineToTheFallen: Carl and Anne had a daughter named Amy, who died of cancer at age eight. They've kept her room exactly the way she left it. No one is allowed in, making it the perfect place for Lauren and Sierra to hide their stolen goods.
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* ShrineToTheFallen: Carl and Anne had a daughter named Amy, who died of cancer at age eight. They've have kept her Amy's room exactly the way she left it. No one is allowed in, making it the perfect place for Lauren and Sierra to hide their stolen goods.goods.
* TakingTheHeat: [[spoiler:After the stolen goods are discovered in Amy's room, Sierra takes the blame because she's going to be leaving the area as soon as her mom is back on her feet, while Lauren is going to be stuck here for the rest of her childhood. Although the truth comes out soon enough.]]
* TakingTheHeat: [[spoiler:After the stolen goods are discovered in Amy's room, Sierra takes the blame because she's going to be leaving the area as soon as her mom is back on her feet, while Lauren is going to be stuck here for the rest of her childhood. Although the truth comes out soon enough.]]
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* DaddyDidntShow: Sierra joins a support group for teens with alcoholic parents, where her classmate Emma Walker describes how her dad lied and said he was too sick to attend her school play, when really he was drunk.
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* TearsOfJoy: Lauren and her mom both cry when Ryan visits for Christmas.
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** Audrey sticks her chin out when she's mad.
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** Lauren's previous best friend, Audrey Lee, sticks her chin out when she's mad.
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* ShrineToTheFallen: Carl and Anne had a daughter named Amy, who died of cancer.cancer at age eight. They've kept her room exactly the way she left it. No one is allowed in, making it the perfect place for Lauren and Sierra to hide their stolen goods.
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* ShrineToTheFallen: Carl and Anne had a daughter named Amy, who died.died of cancer. They've kept her room exactly the way she left it. No one is allowed in, making it the perfect place for Lauren and Sierra to hide their stolen goods.
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* FiveFingerDiscount: Lauren shoplifts shampoo.
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* FiveFingerDiscount: Lauren shoplifts shampoo.shampoo, sparkly hair clips, and a ring.
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Lauren Collins (who narrates in prose) is a well-off seventh-grader in UsefulNotes/{{Philadelphia}} whose fourteen-year-old autistic brother Ryan has just been sent to the Piedmont Therapeutic Boarding School, where she's worried he'll be miserable. Sierra (who narrates in free verse) has been taken away from her alchoholic mom by CPS and placed with foster parents in Lauren's neighborhood. Lauren wants to help families with autistic kids who doesn't have as much money as her own, so she recruits Sierra in a plan to sell things to raise money.
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Lauren Collins (who narrates in prose) is a well-off seventh-grader in UsefulNotes/{{Philadelphia}} whose fourteen-year-old autistic brother Ryan has just been sent to the Piedmont Therapeutic Boarding School, where she's worried he'll be miserable. Sierra (who narrates in free verse) has been taken away from her alchoholic mom by CPS and placed with foster parents in Lauren's neighborhood. Lauren wants to help families with autistic kids who doesn't have as much money as her own, so she recruits Sierra in a plan to sell [[JustLikeRobinHood steal things and then sell them to raise money.money]].
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* ShrineToTheFallen: Carl and Anne had a daughter named Amy, who died. They've kept her room exactly the way she left it. No one is allowed in, making it the perfect place for Lauren and Sierra to hide their stolen goods.
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* MalignedMixedMarriage: Anne is black, and Carl is white. Anne tells Sierra how angry her now-dead parents were when she married a white man. It reminds Sierra of how her Nan used to get upset when her mom dated black men.
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* ShrineToTheFallen: Carl and Anne had a daughter named Amy, who died. They've kept her room exactly the way she left it.
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Lauren (who narrates in prose) is a well-off seventh-grader in UsefulNotes/{{Philadelphia}} whose fourteen-year-old autistic brother Ryan has just been sent to the Piedmont Therapeutic Boarding School, where she's worried he'll be miserable. Sierra (who narrates in free verse) has been taken away from her alchoholic mom by CPS and placed with foster parents in Lauren's neighborhood. Lauren wants to help families with autistic kids who doesn't have as much money as her own, so she recruits Sierra in a plan to sell things to raise money.
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Lauren Collins (who narrates in prose) is a well-off seventh-grader in UsefulNotes/{{Philadelphia}} whose fourteen-year-old autistic brother Ryan has just been sent to the Piedmont Therapeutic Boarding School, where she's worried he'll be miserable. Sierra (who narrates in free verse) has been taken away from her alchoholic mom by CPS and placed with foster parents in Lauren's neighborhood. Lauren wants to help families with autistic kids who doesn't have as much money as her own, so she recruits Sierra in a plan to sell things to raise money.
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* OnePhoneCall: After Sierra's mom is arrested, she uses her one phone call to call her friend Lena and ask her for bail money and to keep Sierra until she can get out, but Lena doesn't have enough money to either post bail or take care of Sierra for very long.
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** Ryan rubs his T-shirt and flicks his fingers. When he was in seventh grade, he was at a horrible school called the Keller School that tried to suppress his movements and force him to make eye contact, but Lauren's parents assure her that Keller is moreprogressive.progressive.
** Audrey sticks her chin out when she's mad.
** Ryan rubs his T-shirt and flicks his fingers. When he was in seventh grade, he was at a horrible school called the Keller School that tried to suppress his movements and force him to make eye contact, but Lauren's parents assure her that Keller is more
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* ThatCloudLooksLike: Sierra remembers cloud-watching with her mom on a beach. She saw a dragon, and her mom saw her favorite flower.
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* HomeschooledKids: Ryan was homeschooled in eighth grade and possibly other years. His parents sent him away because they felt they'd reached the limit with his homeschooling, although Lauren thinks they could have hired tutors and suspects they just didn't want to deal with him anymore.
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Lauren (who narrates in prose) is a well-off seventh-grader in UsefulNotes/{{Philadelphia}} whose fourteen-year-old autistic brother Ryan has just been sent to the Piedmont Therapeutic Boarding School, where she's worried he'll be miserable. Sierra (who narrates in free verse) has been taken away from her drug-addicted alchoholic mom by CPS and placed with foster parents in Lauren's neighborhood. Lauren wants to help families with autistic kids who doesn't have as much money as her own, so she recruits Sierra in a plan to sell things to raise money.
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''Every Shiny Thing'' is a middle-grade novel, half in prose and half in verse, by Cordelia Jensen and Laurie Morrison.
Lauren (who narrates in prose) is a well-off seventh-grader in UsefulNotes/{{Philadelphia}} whose fourteen-year-old autistic brother Ryan has just been sent to the Piedmont Therapeutic Boarding School, where she's worried he'll be miserable. Sierra (who narrates in free verse) has been taken away from her drug-addicted mom by CPS and placed with foster parents in Lauren's neighborhood. Lauren wants to help families with autistic kids who doesn't have as much money as her own, so she recruits Sierra in a plan to sell things to raise money.
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!!''Every Shiny Thing'' contains examples of:
* BadMoodRetreat: Ryan's old occupational therapist, Jenna, helped him set up a calming corner in the basement with a fishtank and a perfectly tuned piano that took forever to get right.
* CharacterTics: Ryan rubs his T-shirt and flicks his fingers. When he was in seventh grade, he was at a horrible school called the Keller School that tried to suppress his movements and force him to make eye contact, but Lauren's parents assure her that Keller is more progressive.
* {{Dedication}}: "For Vermont College of Fine Arts - the place that brought us together and the people who've helped us grow."
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Lauren (who narrates in prose) is a well-off seventh-grader in UsefulNotes/{{Philadelphia}} whose fourteen-year-old autistic brother Ryan has just been sent to the Piedmont Therapeutic Boarding School, where she's worried he'll be miserable. Sierra (who narrates in free verse) has been taken away from her drug-addicted mom by CPS and placed with foster parents in Lauren's neighborhood. Lauren wants to help families with autistic kids who doesn't have as much money as her own, so she recruits Sierra in a plan to sell things to raise money.
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!!''Every Shiny Thing'' contains examples of:
* BadMoodRetreat: Ryan's old occupational therapist, Jenna, helped him set up a calming corner in the basement with a fishtank and a perfectly tuned piano that took forever to get right.
* CharacterTics: Ryan rubs his T-shirt and flicks his fingers. When he was in seventh grade, he was at a horrible school called the Keller School that tried to suppress his movements and force him to make eye contact, but Lauren's parents assure her that Keller is more progressive.
* {{Dedication}}: "For Vermont College of Fine Arts - the place that brought us together and the people who've helped us grow."
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