Katie Beth Parsons is a twelve-year-old student at the Stamford Ballet School with Jessi Ramsey.
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Katie Beth is one of the youngest students in her dance with Hilary Morgan. She becomes jealous of Jessi when she gets the part of Swanilda in the production of Coppélia. She makes some sarcastic comments but eventually stops.
Katie Beth has a deaf sister who is nine-years-old named Adele. Despite her sister being deaf, Katie Beth doesn't know sign language and relies on lip reading and talking loud enough. Her sister goes to a special school in Massachusetts and Jessi teaches her some sign language to talk to her. She slowly becomes friends with Jessi throughout Jessi's Secret Language. She starts taking a class to learn sign language on Mondays in order to communicate with her sister by the end of the book.
In Jessi and the Dance School Phantom, she is suspected to be threatening Jessi. When Katie pushes her out of the way when something is about to crash into Jessi, she was crossed off the suspect list. She had also missed a class when Jessi got a threatening note.
In Jessi and the Awful Secret, she doesn't sign up to help with the kids class.