Rogue by Lyn Miller-Lachmann Flashcards
plot summary
Kiara’s mother is living in Montreal launching her career as a musician so her father sets his musical aspirations aside to be his daughter’s caregiver. The eighth-grader’s Asperger’s syndrome does little to help her adjust to or understand her unsettled family situation. Mr. Internet is her go-to for black-and-white answers to the complexities of life. On the Net, Kiara also delves into a fantasy world of superhero personas and takes on the alter ego of Rogue. While she is academically successful, she is socially shunned. When she joins the popular girls’ table-uninvited-she is ridiculed and publicly rejected. It does little for her case when she hauls off and slams her lunch tray into another girl’s face. Now Kiara is friendless and expelled from school. She befriends her new neighbor, Chad, whose home is a meth den where he is forced to collect ingredients for his parents’ lethal concoctions. Kiara spends lots of time trying to be Chad’s friend and steer him in a better direction; he spends lots of time trying to survive the horror of his home life and being nasty to Kiara. Chad’s and Kiara’s fathers play music together in the backyard, so it’s hard to believe that Kiara’s dad doesn’t notice how weird things are. The dangerous neighborhood happenings seem to completely escape him until there is a major explosion in the meth lab.
This book revolves around an 8th grader with Asperger’s syndrome.
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Kiara has a fascination for superheros in this book.
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Kiara intentionally flunks the end-of-the-year test so she has to go to summer school in this realistic fiction story
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Kiara’s new neighbors are meth makers who force their sons to stand lookout in the park across the street in this book.
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A meth lab explodes and injures both the neighbor- parents and their six-year-old son in this book
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Kiara tries to make friends using Mr. internet in this book.
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