Books with title Butterfly House

When an injury tears her ballet dreams away from her, Brooke becomes withdrawn and depressed. She spends a great deal of time alone as she attempts to recalculate her life’s plan or obsess about gorgeous Blaze Jenson from school. It isn’t until her unlikely friendship with quirky Miss Cee Cee, that Brooke begins to realize that beneath the surface of dreams lies adventure, mystery, romance and more than just a touch of danger.

Andre is living the dream. He's got friends, a girlfriend, and more importantly, its his birthday. This paradise gets swept away after having a dream, and this leaves him trapped in a new world. Everyone's gone, but not dead. Andre sets out with his best friend to find his girlfriend and continue where they left off. after finding out the truth, Andre goes on a rampage and learns about life and changes his ways and is met with a decision that could take everything away from him... again.

Butterfly, Butterfly, What’s Your Game Plan? is a uniquely captivating poem story told in a witty, flowing, non-conforming rhyming verse style making this book enjoyable; it’s fun to read. Embedded with tongue-twisting phrases, the poem examines the life cycle of a butterfly presented to the reader in the unusual form of a soliloquy (Shakespeare is even cited). However, more than an homage to the fanciful, flitting flyer, it is also a somewhat scientific look at numerous aspects of the life of butterflies. It is an observational commentary that examines their whimsical nature, manner of comings and goings, and cycle of regeneration. The book with its numerous colorful and bold illustrations will be a delight to the eye, and can be read to smaller children. Later in their inquisitive and vocabulary building years, middle school age children will find it a stimulating incentive that infuses a love of reading with scientific exploration in nature. The nature study provokes inquiring young minds to expand their knowledge, by inviting them to do research to find out more about the quixotic fliers that capture our attention. The back of the book suggests facts/fiction they can check for themselves with a space for their research notes. Many of Madam Zucchini’s poem story characters find themselves in dilemmas that relate to choices, i.e. learning life’s lessons. This is an inspiring book that explodes with incentives to do research in both science and English.The abundance of richly rendered illustrations and Madam Zucchini’s garden photos show a variety of types of butterflies in their environments which defines the poem story visually. The illustrations are rendered in rich watercolors and pen and ink in a controlled style to be more accurate.

"Exquisitely written . . . steeped in emotional clairvoyance." — Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books (starred review)Plum Coyle is on the edge of adolescence. Her fourteenth birthday is approaching, when her old life and her old body will fall away, and she will become graceful, powerful, and at ease. Or so she desperately believes. Instead, over the next couple of weeks, the older brothers she adores court catastrophe in worlds that she barely knows exist, while Plum’s friends, her worst enemies, tease and test, smelling weakness. A powerful tale about the shifting bonds and psychological perils of adolescence.

Growing up during the 1980s in the safe complacency of the Australian suburbs, Plum Coyle should be happy. But on the cusp of her fourteenth birthday - and on the fringe of her peer group - she lives in terror of the disapproval of her cruel and fickle girlfriends, and most of all, she hates her awkward, changing body with a passion.So when Plum's glamorous next-door neighbour Maureen, a young wife and mother, befriends Plum, Plum responds with worshipful fervour. Plum feels herself reinvented. With Maureen, she becomes the girl she's always wanted to be. But Maureen has an ulterior motive for taking Plum under her wing . . .