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* ManOnFire: When [[spoiler:the Elliots' meth lad explodes]], [[spoiler:Brandon]] runs out with the back of his shirt on fire. The shirt ends up melting into his skin.
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* ManOnFire: When [[spoiler:the Elliots' meth lad lab explodes]], [[spoiler:Brandon]] runs out with the back of his shirt on fire. The shirt ends up melting into his skin.
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* ClandestineChemist: [[spoiler:The Elliotts are secretly making meth using the dangerous shake 'n' bake method in their home.]]
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* FailureGambit: [[spoiler:Kiara flunks her tests on purpose so she'll be able to stay at home and attend summer school instead of spending the summer with her mom in UsefulNotes/{{Montreal}}.]]
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* FailureGambit: [[spoiler:Kiara flunks her tests on purpose so she'll be able to stay at home and attend summer school instead of spending the summer with her mom mami in UsefulNotes/{{Montreal}}.]]
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* HowDadMetMom: Kiara's parents met at a music festival. Her dad dropped out of college after her mom got pregnant with Eli.
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* HowDadMetMom: Kiara's parents met at a music festival. Her dad dropped out of college after her mom mami got pregnant with Eli.
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* HouseFire: [[spoiler:When Kiara's dad reports the Elliotts for child abuse, they see the police coming and pour the evidence down the drain, causing their house to explode. Chad is at Kiara's house and isn't hurt, but the rest of the family is badly burned.]]
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* HouseFire: [[spoiler:When Kiara's dad reports the Elliotts for child abuse, they see the police coming and pour the evidence from their meth lab down the drain, causing their house to explode. Chad is at Kiara's house and isn't hurt, but the rest of the family is badly burned.]]
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* MaleBandFemaleSinger: Kiara's mom used to do all the singing in the band because her dad's vocal cords were damaged by chemotherapy.
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* MissingMom: Kiara's mom left to get a job in another city the month before she was kicked out of school.
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* MissingMom: Kiara's mom mami left to get a job in another city the month before she Kiara was kicked out of school.
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* TantrumThrowing: When [[spoiler:Kiara's mom tells her that she'll have to spend the summer in Montreal, meaning she won't be able to hang out with her new friends]], she screams "I hate you! I never want to see you again!" and throws the flip phone across the kitchen, breaking it in two. Her father takes away her computer privileges after that.
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* TantrumThrowing: When [[spoiler:Kiara's mom mami tells her that she'll have to spend the summer in Montreal, meaning she won't be able to hang out with her new friends]], she screams "I hate you! I never want to see you again!" and throws the flip phone across the kitchen, breaking it in two. Her father takes away her computer privileges after that.
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* CooldownHug: Kiara gives one to Chad while [[spoiler:he's living with her family after the destruction of his home]].
* HatesBeingTouched: Kiara usually stiffens or flinches when people touch her.
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* ProneToTears: Kiara gets upset very easily. At school she used to cry almost every day from being teased and ostracized.
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Eighth-grader Kiara Thornton-Delgado has never been able to keep friends, and now she's been kicked out of school for fighting back against a bully. When a boy her age, Chad Elliott, moves in across the street, she hopes he can be her first real friend. She's so desperate to make him like her that when she learns his family's secret, she agrees not to tell anyone.
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* AbusiveParents: [[spoiler:The Elliotts force their sons to help them obtain the chemicals they need to make meth, and both their sons have to act as lookouts even after Brandon gets pneumonia from standing in the freezing rain for hours on end. They also beat Chad for disobedience, but if he makes sure they don't beat Brandon too.doesn't clean up the byproducts of meth production quickly enough.]]
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* HeelFaceTurn: Referenced by Chad's little brother Brandon, who moves one of his toys from the bad guy line to the good guy line and says, "Last week he turned into a good guy."
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* HeelFaceTurn: Referenced by Chad's little brother Brandon, who moves one of his toys from the bad guy line to the good guy line and says, "Last week he turned into a good guy."
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* SourOutsideSadInside: Chad acts arrogant and abrasive, but in fact he's miserable.
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* AbusiveParents: [[spoiler:The Elliotts force their sons to help them obtain the chemicals they need to make meth, and both their sons have to act as lookouts even after Brandon gets pneumonia from standing in the freezing rain for hours on end. They beat Chad for disobedience, but he makes sure they don't beat Brandon too.]]
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* BandOfRelatives: Kiara's parents, brothers, and uncles used to be in a folk band called Corazón del Este. It broke up when Eli and Max went to college, their parents got new jobs, and their uncles moved to Montreal.
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* BandOfRelatives: Kiara's parents, brothers, and uncles used to be in a folk band called Corazón del Este. It broke up when Eli and Max went to college, their parents got new jobs, and their uncles moved to Montreal.UsefulNotes/{{Montreal}}.
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* PottyFailure: Chad pees his pants during a drunken wipeout.
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* CelebrityResemblance: Antonio tells Kiara she looks like Creator/AnnaPaquin.
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* FailureGambit: [[spoiler:Kiara flunks her tests on purpose so she'll be able to stay at home and attend summer school instead of spending the summer with her mom in UsefulNotes/{{Montreal}}.]]
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* ProtagonistTitle: Sort of. Kiara relates very strongly to the ComicBook/XMen character Rogue, and often compares her own situation to things that happened in the comics.
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* HomeschooledKids: A tutor teaches Kiara for a few hours a day. Other than that, she's free to research whatever she wants. She learns a lot more quickly by herself than she did at school.
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* HomeschooledKids: A Kiara's tutor Ms. Latimer teaches Kiara her for a few hours a day. Other than that, she's free to research whatever she wants. She learns a lot more quickly by herself than she did at school.
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* ElectiveMute: Kiara stopped speaking for six months in kindergarten. When she started again, her voice sounded funny and she had trouble pronouncing some of the words she knew.
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* UnwittingPawn: Chad asks Kiara to give him a bike tour of the town. [[spoiler:He's actually using her to buy Sudafed from a bunch of different pharmacies so his parents can make meth.]]
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* TwentyMinutesIntoThePast: The book is set in 2006, when [[spoiler:Congress banned the over-the-counter sale of pseudoephedrine]].
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''Rogue'' is a 2013 young adult novel by Lyn Miller-Lachmann.
Eighth-grader Kiara Thornton-Delgado has never been able to keep friends, and now she's been kicked out of school for fighting back against a bully. When a boy her age, Chad Elliott, moves in across the street, she hopes he can be her first real friend. She's so desperate to make him like her that when she learns his family's secret, she agrees not to tell anyone.
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!!''Rogue'' contains examples of:
* AlphaBitch: Kiara was kicked out of school because she tried to sit at the popular kids' table, and Melanie Prince-Parker pushed her tray to the floor. Kiara responded by smashing her tray into Melanie's face, giving her a bloody nose.
* BandOfRelatives: Kiara's parents, brothers, and uncles used to be in a folk band called Corazón del Este. It broke up when Eli and Max went to college, their parents got new jobs, and their uncles moved to Montreal.
* EmbarrassingNickname: "Crybaby Kiara." At school, Kiara tried to befriend new kids before they found out about the nickname, but they always got sick of her and ditched her within a few weeks.
* HomeschooledKids: A tutor teaches Kiara for a few hours a day. Other than that, she's free to research whatever she wants. She learns a lot more quickly by herself than she did at school.
* HowDadMetMom: Kiara's parents met at a music festival. Her dad dropped out of college after her mom got pregnant with Eli.
* MissingMom: Kiara's mom leaves the month before she's kicked out of school.
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Eighth-grader Kiara Thornton-Delgado has never been able to keep friends, and now she's been kicked out of school for fighting back against a bully. When a boy her age, Chad Elliott, moves in across the street, she hopes he can be her first real friend. She's so desperate to make him like her that when she learns his family's secret, she agrees not to tell anyone.
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!!''Rogue'' contains examples of:
* AlphaBitch: Kiara was kicked out of school because she tried to sit at the popular kids' table, and Melanie Prince-Parker pushed her tray to the floor. Kiara responded by smashing her tray into Melanie's face, giving her a bloody nose.
* BandOfRelatives: Kiara's parents, brothers, and uncles used to be in a folk band called Corazón del Este. It broke up when Eli and Max went to college, their parents got new jobs, and their uncles moved to Montreal.
* EmbarrassingNickname: "Crybaby Kiara." At school, Kiara tried to befriend new kids before they found out about the nickname, but they always got sick of her and ditched her within a few weeks.
* HomeschooledKids: A tutor teaches Kiara for a few hours a day. Other than that, she's free to research whatever she wants. She learns a lot more quickly by herself than she did at school.
* HowDadMetMom: Kiara's parents met at a music festival. Her dad dropped out of college after her mom got pregnant with Eli.
* MissingMom: Kiara's mom leaves the month before she's kicked out of school.
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