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Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Velma starts first grade in the shadow of her memorable older sisters, and while her newfound interest in butterflies helps her to stand out, it also leads to an interesting complication.
4) Rita
Author
Publisher
OQO Editora
Pub. Date
2007
Language
Español
Description
Rita the butterfly may live in the dangerous tropical rainforest, but she isn't afraid of anything, until one day when she gets too close to a group of elephants splashing in the river.
Author
Series
Magic School Bus a science chapter book volume 16
Publisher
Scholastic, Inc
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When they start a unit on butterflies Ms. Frizzle accidentally turns all the kids in her class into butterflies.
Author
Series
Publisher
Andersen Press USA
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
As Elmer the patchwork elephant is strolling through the jungle, he hears a cry for help. A butterfly is trapped. Elmer easily frees her. She promises to help Elmer. But how can a butterfly ever help an elephant?
Author
Language
English
Description
Tired of living on a failing farm and suffering oppressive poverty, bored housewife Dellarobia Turnbow, on the way to meet a potential lover, is detoured by a miraculous event on the Appalachian mountainside that ignites a media and religious firestorm that changes her life forever.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Tara Doucet is grieving for her grandmother, and her family is falling apart around her, but it seems like her grandmother has preplanned an elaborate itinerary for her to follow which will lead her and her sister Riley from Louisiana to a South Pacific island and into danger--and everywhere she turns butterflies follow.
Author
Series
Yarn retreat mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
During the annual butterfly festival at California's Monterey Peninsula, Casey Feldstein must unravel the clues to catch a killer when a former butterfly queen is found with a knife in her back.
Author
Publisher
Piñata Books
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
While she and her classmates wait for the caterpillars they are raising to be transformed into Monarch butterflies, Julianita's grandfather tells her about the annual migration of these butterflies to his hometown in Mexico.
12) Don't worry Bear
Author
Series
Bear books (Greg Foley) volume 2
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A caterpillar reassures a worried bear that they will see each other again when the caterpillar emerges from its cocoon.
14) I, Monty
Author
Publisher
Island Heritage
Pub. Date
1980, c1977
Language
English
Description
His metamorphosis from caterpillar into butterfly causes Monty to reflect on the mysteries of life, death, afterlife, rebirth, and love.
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