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Bluish Summary & Study Guide Description
Bluish Summary & Study Guide includes comprehensive information and analysis to help you understand the book. This study guide contains the following sections:
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Bluish Plot Summary
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Set in modern-day New York City, Bluish is a novel about a budding friendship between three preteen girls, one of whom is afflicted with a form of blood cancer.
Dreenie is the primary character of the novel. She is made anxious and curious when a new girl is introduced into her fifth-grade class. The girl is confined to a wheelchair, and she is so pale that the blue veins underneath the skin can be seen, giving her a bluish hue. Dreenie and the other children give her the nickname, Bluish. Bluish is made an outsider by her condition, and she frequently has to leave early for doctor's appointments. Dreenie herself is also an outsider, as a new kid in school who is being outshined by her intellectually-gifted younger sister, Willie. Dreenie's sole friend at school is the extroverted and flamboyant Tuli, who speaks with a Hispanic accent and mangles Spanish...
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