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Viola in Reel Life by Adriana Trigiani (view source)
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It definitely wasn't Viola's choice to go to boarding school and she really would have preferred not to have to share a room with three other girls she'd never met before, but her parents – both film makers - were going to be abroad for a year and single rooms were in short supply. And that was how, at the beginning of the school year, Viola came to be at the Prefect Academy in South Bend, Indiana rather than in her native New York. She's d left behind her best friend, Andrew (no – he's not her boyfriend, he's a best friend who happens to be a boy) and is sharing a room with Marisol Carreras, Romy Dixon and Suzanne Santry.
Fashion is different in South Bend. Viola's yellow patent flats are something of a no-no, but sherbet-coloured sweaters seem to be the in thing. Contact with friends and family isn't entirely lost as there's always IM, emails and the web-cam, but gradually Viola comes to realise that far from being a year to dread this could turn out to be something quite special. What Viola really wants to do is make film and she sees life through her camera which seems to hang permanently from her shoulders – but it's not long before she realises that there's a lot more to life.