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* FlowersOfRomance: When Michel arrives to pick Clara up for their first date, he brings a bouquet of peonies.
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* FlowersOfRomance: When Michel arrives to pick Clara up for their first date, he brings a bouquet of peonies. For their second date, he brings her a potted orchid.
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* PrivacyByDistraction: Dad sends Alastair to refill the cat's water bowl so he can talk to Clara about his autism.
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* DramaticSitdown: Bree tells Clara to sit down before breaking the news to her about [[spoiler:Tom falsely accusing Jacques of corruption on Twitter and claiming he got the information from Clara, who made the mistake of complaining to him about how greedy Jacques is]].
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* DitzyGenius: Clara's friend Bree acts like a ditz, but gets straight A's in school.
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* CareerEndingInjury: [[spoiler:Catherine falls during a performance. It wasn't a heavy fall, but because of her osteoporosis, it breaks her hip. She will never perform again. The accident causes her and Clara to both realize what a serious problem orthorexia is, and how much they need to change.]]
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* YourMakeupIsRunning: When Clara's dad breaks the news to her about [[spoiler:Catherine's accident]], Clara cries, and tastes the mixture of salt and mascara.
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* HandsOnApproach: Michel puts his hands on Clara's to show her how to knead dough.
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* SensoryOverload: Alastair is prone to this, and carries headphones and a weighted vest around to calm himself. When he's overwhelmed by smells in a market, Clara wraps her scarf around his lower face so he'll only smell that.
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* HalfBreedDiscrimination: Michel was bullied in school by the white kids for being black, and by the four other black kids for having a white mother.
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Clara Singerman, the sixteen-year-old daughter of famous ballerina Catherine Malcolm, is invited to spend the summer in Paris with her estranged father, his new wife Mag, and their six-year-old autistic son Alastair. Clara decides to go in order to escape from a social media disaster at home, and she and Alastair explore Paris together.
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Clara Singerman, the sixteen-year-old daughter of famous ballerina Catherine Malcolm, is invited to spend the summer in Paris with her estranged father, his new wife Mag, and their six-year-old autistic son Alastair. Clara decides to go in order to escape from a social media disaster at home, and she and home. She explores Paris with Alastair explore Paris together.and finds romance with the baker's son Michel.
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* FlowersOfRomance: When Michel arrives to pick Clara up for their first date, he brings a bouquet of peonies.
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* LethalChef: Catherine is totally incapable of cooking, so Clara prepares most of their meals. After Clara is diagnosed with orthorexia, Catherine, feeling guilty, decides to cook a turkey breast. Clara comes home to find that Catherine has charred the turkey breast into a smoking black lump that set off the fire alarm.
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* AffectionateGestureToTheHead: Clara's dad ruffles Alastair's hair, even though he HatesBeingTouched. Clara wonders why he keeps doing something Alastair doesn't like.
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* FlorenceNightingaleEffect: Clara's father was a surgeon who treated her mother and then fell in love with her. It caused a scandal, because Catherine was eighteen and his patient, and he lost his medical license. After their marriage fell apart, Clara's father moved to Paris, where he started a new life as an academic.
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* FlorenceNightingaleEffect: Clara's father was a surgeon who treated her mother and then fell in love with her. It caused a scandal, because Catherine was eighteen and his patient, and he lost his medical license. After their marriage fell apart, Clara's father moved to Paris, Europe, where he started a new life as an academic.
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* LearntEnglishFromWatchingTelevision: Most of Michel's knowledge of English comes from movies and TV. His mom loved Shakespeare and wanted him to know English, so whenever he wanted to watch anything from America or England, she would get the English version.
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* AlphaBitch: Avril is the most popular girl in Clara's private school. She also bullied three girls into leaving school in the same year.
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''On the Spectrum'' is a 2017 young adult novel by Jennifer Gold.
Clara Singerman, the sixteen-year-old daughter of famous ballerina Catherine Malcolm, is invited to spend the summer in Paris with her estranged father, his new wife Mag, and their six-year-old autistic son Alastair. Clara decides to go in order to escape from a social media disaster at home, and she and Alastair explore Paris together.
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!!''On the Spectrum'' contains examples of:
* CharacterTics: Clara twirls her hair around her finger when she's uncomfortable.
* DisappearedDad: Clara hasn't seen her dad since her parents divorced when she was a toddler.
* FirstNameBasis: The counselor at Clara's high school is so insistent on this that the kids refer to her as "Call-Me-Jane" behind her back. To her face, most people call her Mrs. Cartwright, despite her efforts.
* FlorenceNightingaleEffect: Clara's father was a surgeon who treated her mother and then fell in love with her. It caused a scandal, because Catherine was eighteen and his patient, and he lost his medical license. After their marriage fell apart, Clara's father moved to Paris, where he started a new life as an academic.
* ItsAllMyFault: Catherine been teaching Clara to obsess over her weight since early childhood. After Catherine is diagnosed with osteoporosis due to decades of inadequate eating and obsessive exercise, and Clara is diagnosed with orthorexia because a teacher saw her surreptitiously weighing apple slices, Catherine takes her to an Italian restaurant, where they both find themselves completely unable to eat. Catherine whispers, "I'm sorry. It's all my fault." She says that she doesn't know any other way of life, because being thin is everything in ballet.
* TheSvengali: Jacques, the company director, has been Catherine's mentor since she was Clara's age. He encouraged her to start smoking, taught her to destroy her health in order to stay thin, and discourages her from having close relationship with anyone other than him. Even though he's gay, Clara compares his relationship with Catherine to an abusive marriage.
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Clara Singerman, the sixteen-year-old daughter of famous ballerina Catherine Malcolm, is invited to spend the summer in Paris with her estranged father, his new wife Mag, and their six-year-old autistic son Alastair. Clara decides to go in order to escape from a social media disaster at home, and she and Alastair explore Paris together.
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!!''On the Spectrum'' contains examples of:
* CharacterTics: Clara twirls her hair around her finger when she's uncomfortable.
* DisappearedDad: Clara hasn't seen her dad since her parents divorced when she was a toddler.
* FirstNameBasis: The counselor at Clara's high school is so insistent on this that the kids refer to her as "Call-Me-Jane" behind her back. To her face, most people call her Mrs. Cartwright, despite her efforts.
* FlorenceNightingaleEffect: Clara's father was a surgeon who treated her mother and then fell in love with her. It caused a scandal, because Catherine was eighteen and his patient, and he lost his medical license. After their marriage fell apart, Clara's father moved to Paris, where he started a new life as an academic.
* ItsAllMyFault: Catherine been teaching Clara to obsess over her weight since early childhood. After Catherine is diagnosed with osteoporosis due to decades of inadequate eating and obsessive exercise, and Clara is diagnosed with orthorexia because a teacher saw her surreptitiously weighing apple slices, Catherine takes her to an Italian restaurant, where they both find themselves completely unable to eat. Catherine whispers, "I'm sorry. It's all my fault." She says that she doesn't know any other way of life, because being thin is everything in ballet.
* TheSvengali: Jacques, the company director, has been Catherine's mentor since she was Clara's age. He encouraged her to start smoking, taught her to destroy her health in order to stay thin, and discourages her from having close relationship with anyone other than him. Even though he's gay, Clara compares his relationship with Catherine to an abusive marriage.
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