My Fate According to the Butterfly by Villanueva, Gail D.

My Fate According to the Butterfly

* Villanueva's debut is a beautiful #ownvoices middle-grade novel. Tough topics are addressed, but warmth and humor......
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Author: Gail D. Villanueva
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Language: English
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My Fate According to the Butterfly by Villanueva, Gail D.

My Fate According to the Butterfly

$47.53

My Fate According to the Butterfly

$47.53
Author: Gail D. Villanueva
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
* Villanueva's debut is a beautiful #ownvoices middle-grade novel. Tough topics are addressed, but warmth and humor... bring lightness to Sab's story. This immersive novel bursts with life. -- Kirkus Reviews, starred review

When superstitious Sab sees a giant black butterfly, an omen of death, she knows that she's doomed According to legend, she has one week before her fate catches up with her -- on her 11th birthday. With her time running out, all she wants is to celebrate her birthday with her entire family. But her sister, Ate Nadine, stopped speaking to their father one year ago, and Sab doesn't even know why.If Sab's going to get Ate Nadine and their father to reconcile, she'll have to overcome her fears -- of her sister's anger, of leaving the bubble of her sheltered community, of her upcoming doom -- and figure out the cause of their rift.So Sab and her best friend Pepper start spying on Nadine and digging into their family's past to determine why, exactly, Nadine won't speak to their father. But Sab's adventures across Manila reveal truths about her family more difficult -- and dangerous -- than she ever anticipated.Was the Butterfly right? Perhaps Sab is doomed after all

Author: Gail D. Villanueva
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Published: 07/30/2019
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.40w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781338310504
Audience: Ages 9-12

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 4.4
Point Value: 6
Interest Level: Middle Grade
Quiz #/Name: 503333 / My Fate According to the Butterfly


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 04/15/2019 pg. 121
School Library Journal 05/01/2019 pg. 96
Publishers Weekly 05/13/2019
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 07/01/2019
Booklist 06/01/2019 pg. 98
Shelf Awareness 08/06/2019

About the Author
Gail D. Villanueva is a Filipina author born and based in the Philippines. She's also a web designer, an entrepreneur, and a graphic artist. She loves pineapple pizza, seafood, and chocolate, but not in a single dish together (eww). Gail and her husband live in the outskirts of Manila with their dogs, ducks, turtles, cats, and one friendly but lonesome chicken. Her debut novel, My Fate According to the Butterfly, was named a Best Book of the Year by Kirkus Reviews.

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