Books with title The Butterfly Ride

Before a storm blew Lily the butterfly to a nearby town, all she knew was the kindness of the farmer who rescued her as a caterpillar. She had never spoken to a cockroach, rode on top of a Sheriff's hat, or faced off with a fierce black crow. But all that changed when she learns that even humans need help from bumblebees, yellow jackets, and Mother Dragonfly to find one of their own. When she becomes the key to unlock the mystery surrounding the disappearance of a little girl named Emily, Lily finds out what makes fire burn forever...

Caterpillars Dotty and Stripe do everything together. They play, they eat leaves and do all sorts of caterpiller-y things, and then one day, after spinning themselves into snuggly cocoons, they wake up as beautiful butterflies! But soon they realise that, for the first time ever, they look different. Should Dotty only play with butterflies that look like her? And Stripe only play with butterflies that look like him? A stunningly illustrated story about friendship and and being happy with who you are, from the author/illustrator of Waterstones Children's Book Prize shortlisted The Dawn Chorus.

“Fascinating. Ellison has the art of page-turning down flat, and readers will be swept up by both the terror—and the romance.”—Booklist, Starred Review“This book casts a spell over its readers.”—SLJ, Starred Review“An engaging mystery starring a teen girl with obsessive-compulsive disorder. A pleasing mix of realism, tension, intrigue and romance.”—Kirkus Reviews“ . . . a strong, twisty thriller of a debut . . . [with] a complex and memorable heroine.”—Publishers Weekly“Lo’s relationship with the mysterious street boy who calls himself Flynt, layered on top of her almost supernatural loneliness and helpless compulsions, gives the novel an otherworldly quality.”—VOYA“A debut worth picking up. Stark and realistic.”—RTBooksPenelope (Lo) Marin has always loved to collect beautiful things. Her dad's consulting job means she's grown up moving from one rundown city to the next, and she's learned to cope by collecting (sometimes even stealing) quirky trinkets and souvenirs in each new place--possessions that allow her to feel at least some semblance of home.But in the year since her brother Oren's death, Lo's hoarding has blossomed into a full-blown, potentially dangerous obsession. She discovers a beautiful, antique butterfly pendant during a routine scour at a weekend flea market, and recognizes it as having been stolen from the home of a recently murdered girl known only as "Sapphire"--a girl just a few years older than Lo. As usual when Lo begins to obsess over something, she can't get the murder out of her mind.As she attempts to piece together the mysterious "butterfly clues," with the unlikely help of a street artist named Flynt, Lo quickly finds herself caught up in a seedy, violent underworld much closer to home than she ever imagined--a world, she'll ultimately discover, that could hold the key to her brother's tragic death.

Bennie the Butterfly is a tale of a little caterpillar from the Meadow of Flowers and Stars. After crawling out of the cocoon, Bennie is horrified to see she only has one wing. She prays to the Great Butterfly Spirit who tells her she must go on a grand adventure in order to find her second wing. Compelled by her relentless desire to fly, Bennie begins her perilous journey which takes her across The Four Lands of Legend, known to humans as New Mexico, Utah, Colorado, and Arizona. Along the way, Bennie learns the importance of innovation, friendship, and perseverance in order to accomplish her ultimate goal, the chance to fly above the meadow.

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Penny is furious, and who can blame her? She has to spend Christmas break alone at the Black Butterfly, an old inn at the coldest, bleakest edge of America—the coast of Maine. This "vacation" is the brainchild of Penny's flaky mother, who's on the other side of the country hunting ghosts. Penny most definitely does not believe in spirits. Or love. Or family. Until, that is, she discovers two very real apparitions which only she can see…and meets George, the handsome son of the inn's owner…and crashes into some staggering family secrets. If only Ghost Girl didn't want Penny dead. If only George were the tiniest bit open to believing. If only she could tell her mother. Then maybe this could still be a vacation. But it's not. It's a race for her life, her first love, and her sanity.Shirley Reva Vernick is rapidly becoming the new hot item in young adult fiction. Her first novel, The Blood Lie, won the Simon Wiesenthal Children's Book Award, was silver medalist for the Sydney Taylor Book Award, and was an ALA 2012 Best Book for Young Adults. Her second novel, Remember Dippy—a feel good adventure about a fourteen-year-old boy shepherding his older autistic cousin through his summer vacation—was released in spring 2013 and won the Dolly Gray Literature Award from the Council For Exceptional Children. This time around, Shirley wanted to let loose with a page-turning coming-of-age romance mixed with ghosts and adventure. Shirley is the creator of the much visited storytelling website storybee.org. She lives in Amherst, Massachusetts.

The Butterfly Gang is the story of a blue boy butterfly, Tad. Boy butterflies hadn't been seen in 158 years, and Tad didn't know how to fly or how to be a butterfly at all. Until one day, Tad is met in a garden by Ariel, Daphne, and Mariposa, who are in shock to see a blue butterfly. With the longest migration of any insect just about to start, the girls decide they cannot leave Tad, the first blue butterfly to be seen alone and lost. This 5,000-mile journey takes the reader from the perspective and experience of a butterfly on an adventure, exploring a new world with thought-provoking analogies pertaining to the vicissitudes of life that are simplified for a child with humor and emotion. There is a lot of discovery in The Butterfly Gang. From learning to appreciate the effort and value of what your friends’ words mean, to working together and each contributing to the journey and managing the dangers encountered on the way. With readers looking for diversity, the characters offer unique qualities and heritage, one butterfly being a Spanish speaker; with characters being unique but part of a gang, it will most certainly speak to that element. The Butterfly Gang is set in present time, taking the reader on a journey starting in the upper-eastern northern seaboard through the south and to El Rosario, Mexico where hundreds of millions of butterflies actually gather yearly. This story will awaken the butterfly in you and along the way will bring laughter, smiles, and tears to your eyes. The Butterfly Gang is a children's fiction chapter book, appropriate for children 7-12 years of age and for adults who read to children. Butterflies see things that we don't see, and this story shows us the world through their eyes, a world that will be both familiar and new to the reader. This is the story about how the first Butterfly Gang formed. The characters Tad, Ariel, Daphne, and Mariposa are multidimensional, multilingual, playful, animated, and fun, and each offers unique qualities that help them complete their migration to El Rosario, their destination at the end of a 5,000-mile journey. The Butterfly Gang is camouflaged as a children's book, but inevitably pulls generations of readers to it and is a great read for parent/grandparent to a child. The adult will walk away with childlike enthusiasm and wonder who was the book really for? The journey I tell is an actual one that hundreds of millions of butterflies take every year to El Rosario, Mexico. You will see the multi-cultural aspect of the characters and the international journey these butterflies take.