Author: Āwhina E. L. Andrew
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780473641603
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Rene Denfeld
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062698184
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 220

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“A heartbreaking, finger-gnawing, and yet ultimately hopeful novel by the amazing Rene Denfeld.” —Margaret Atwood, via Twitter After captivating readers in The Child Finder, Naomi—the investigator with an uncanny ability for finding missing children—returns, trading snow-covered woods for dark, gritty streets on the search for her missing sister in a city where young, homeless girls have been going missing and turning up dead. From the highly praised author of The Child Finder and The Enchanted comes The Butterfly Girl, a riveting novel that ripples with truth, exploring the depths of love and sacrifice in the face of a past that cannot be left dead and buried. A year ago, Naomi, the investigator with an uncanny ability for finding missing children, made a promise that she would not take another case until she finds the younger sister who has been missing for years. Naomi has no picture, not even a name. All she has is a vague memory of a strawberry field at night, black dirt under her bare feet as she ran for her life. The search takes her to Portland, Oregon, where scores of homeless children wander the streets like ghosts, searching for money, food, and companionship. The sharp-eyed investigator soon discovers that young girls have been going missing for months, many later found in the dirty waters of the river. Though she does not want to get involved, Naomi is unable to resist the pull of children in need—and the fear she sees in the eyes of a twelve-year old girl named Celia. Running from an abusive stepfather and an addict mother, Celia has nothing but hope in the butterflies—her guides and guardians on the dangerous streets. She sees them all around her, tiny iridescent wisps of hope that soften the edges of this hard world and illuminate a cherished memory from her childhood—the Butterfly Museum, a place where everything is safe and nothing can hurt her. As danger creeps closer, Naomi and Celia find echoes of themselves in one another, forcing them each to consider the question: Can you still be lost even when you’ve been found? But will they find the answer too late?

Author: Rachel Baughan
Publisher: Kings Road Publishing
ISBN: 1857827872
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 230

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Racheal Baughan is 25 and lives in Crawley, west Sussex. She had recently started her own modelling agency, True Model Media, for which she will only take on girls of healthy body weight, and which she also uses as a platform to campaign against the modelling industry's promotion of underweight models.

Author: Brooke Brown
Publisher: Xulon Press
ISBN: 1604774975
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 50

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Bridget Saunders dreams of becoming part of a real-life fairy tale. She soon finds herself in the company of Rory, her spunky Guardian Angel, and the Lord Himself on her imaginary enchanted island where she can trade her wheels for wings and fly the butterfly way.

Author: Paula Leyden
Publisher: Walker
ISBN: 9781406327922
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 199

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Bul-Boo and Madillo are worried about their friend Winifred, who has lost her gentle smile and no longer puts up her hand in class. Then the twins discover her secret: she is to be married off to her uncle's friend, who drinks heavily and is old enough to be her grandfather.

Author: Rene Denfeld
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1474607632
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 272

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Naomi's job is locating missing children, but she cannot find her own sister, lost for 20 years. She has no picture, no name, just a memory of a strawberry field at night and running for her life. Celia, a street child, has nothing but her hope in the butterflies that she imagines all around her on Portland, Oregon's dangerous streets, where young girls are going missing. As danger creeps closer, Naomi and Celia must ask themselves: can you still be lost even when you've been found? But will they find the answer too late?

Author: A.L. Sonnichsen
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1481411098
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 400

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In China, a foundling girl with a deformed hand raised in secret by an American woman must navigate China's strict adoption system when she is torn away from the only family she has ever known.

Author: Helen Cooper
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 1536220558
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32

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"When the rescuers meet the boat, there are only two people left: a little one and a bigger one. The bigger one remembers the uncertainty of the trip across the ocean, but the little one has stopped thinking about all that. Can the little one and a very special butterfly help the big one move forward?"--

Author: Blossom Elfman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780395289488
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 158

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Sixteen-year-old Florrie's dreams of perfect love prove illusive when her boyfriend abandons her once he discovers that she is pregnant, leaving her to decide whether or not to have the baby alone.

Author: Mick Cochrane
Publisher: Yearling
ISBN: 0375846107
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 194

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For an eighth grader, Molly Williams has more than her fair share of problems. Her father has just died in a car accident, and her mother has become a withdrawn, quiet version of herself. Molly doesn’t want to be seen as “Miss Difficulty Overcome”; she wants to make herself known to the kids at school for something other than her father’s death. So she decides to join the baseball team. The boys’ baseball team. Her father taught her how to throw a knuckleball, and Molly hopes it’s enough to impress her coaches as well as her new teammates. Over the course of one baseball season, Molly must figure out how to redefine her relationships to things she loves, loved, and might love: her mother; her brilliant best friend, Celia; her father; her enigmatic and artistic teammate, Lonnie; and of course, baseball. Mick Cochrane is a professor of English and the Lowery Writer-in-Residence at Canisius College in Buffalo, New York, where he lives with his wife and two sons.