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    Butterflies Belong Here: A Story of One Idea, Thirty Kids, and a World of Butterflies
    Butterflies Belong Here: A Story of One Idea, Thirty Kids, and a World of Butterflies
    Butterflies Belong Here: A Story of One Idea, Thirty Kids, and a World of Butterflies
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    Butterflies Belong Here: A Story of One Idea, Thirty Kids, and a World of Butterflies

    By Deborah Hopkinson and Meilo So

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    Butterflies Belong Here is a powerful story of everyday activism and hope.

    In this moving story of community conservation, a girl finds a home in a new place and a way to help other small travelers.

    This book is about the real change     children can make in conservation and advocacy—in this case, focusing on beautiful monarch butterflies.

    • From Deborah Hopkinson and Meilo So, the acclaimed team behind Follow the Moon Home
    • An empowering, classroom-ready read
    • The protagonist is a girl whose family has recently immigrated to the United States.

    I know what to look for: large black-and-orange wings with a border of small white specks, flitting from flower to flower, sipping nectar. But though I looked hard, I couldn't find even one. I wondered if monarch butterflies belonged here. I wondered if I did, too.

    Butterflies Belong Here     is proof that even the smallest of us are capable of amazing transformations.

    • Equal parts educational and heartwarming, this makes a great book for parents and grandparents, as well as librarians, science teachers, and educators.
    • Those interested in beautiful butterflies and everyday activism will find this lovely book both motivating and inspiring.
    • Perfect for children ages 5 to 8 years old
    • You'll love this book if you love books like Thank You, Earth: A Love Letter to Our Planet by April Pulley Sayre, The Honeybee by Kirsten Hall, and Greta and the Giants: Inspired by Greta Thunberg's Stand to Save the World by Zoë Tucker
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherChronicle Books Digital
    Release dateAug 4, 2020
    ISBN9781452177007
    Butterflies Belong Here: A Story of One Idea, Thirty Kids, and a World of Butterflies
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    Deborah Hopkinson

    Deborah Hopkinson is the author of Small Places, Close to Home and Ordinary, Extraordinary Jane Austen, among more than fifty acclaimed works for young readers including picture books, middle-grade fiction, and nonfiction that help bring history and research alive. Deborah lives near Portland, Oregon with her family and a menagerie of pets. You can visit her online at www.deborahhopkinson.com.

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      Butterflies Belong Here - Deborah Hopkinson

      For Keelia, Blaine, and Eliot, and in loving memory of their shining Max —DH

      For Sung-Sau So —MS

      Text copyright © 2020 by Deborah Hopkinson.

      Illustrations copyright © 2020 by Meilo So.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without written permission from the publisher.

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data:

      Names: Hopkinson, Deborah, author. | So, Meilo, illustrator. Title: Butterflies belong here / by Deborah Hopkinson ; illustrated by Meilo So. Description: San Francisco : Chronicle Books LLC, [2020] | Summary: An immigrant girl explains how she learned English by reading about Monarch butterflies, and how, troubled by their decline, she got her classmates and neighbors together

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