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DescriptionLight and deep, smart and funny, crushing and hopeful all at the same time, My Fate According to the Butterfly will open your eyes to both the worlds potential for magic, and to its harsh realities.* Villanuevas debut is a beautiful #ownvoices middle-grade novel. Tough topics -- the brutal war on drugs in the Philippines, family reconciliation, and recovery -- are addressed, but warmth and humor... bring lightness to Sabs 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 shes doomedAccording 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 doesnt even know why. If Sabs going to get Ate Nadine and their father to reconcile, shell have to overcome her fears -- of her sisters 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 familys past to determine why, exactly, Nadine wont speak to their father. But Sabs 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 allAbout the AuthorGail D. Villanueva is a Filipina author born and based in the Philippines. Shes 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. My Fate According to the Butterfly is her debut novel.
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Vânzător: Elefant.ro
Brand: Scholastic Press
