The girl who threw butterflies

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The work The girl who threw butterflies represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Noble County Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

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Label

The girl who threw butterflies

Statement of responsibility

Mick Cochrane

Creator

• Cochrane, Mick
• trueCochrane, Mick

Subject

• trueBaseball stories
• Buffalo (N.Y.) -- Fiction
• trueBuffalo, New York
• trueEighth-grade girls
• trueFather-separated teenage girls
• trueFathers -- Death
• trueFirst person narratives
• trueFriendship
• Friendship -- Fiction
• trueGender role
• trueGrief
• Grief -- Fiction
• trueGrief in teenage girls
• trueMiddle schools
• trueBaseball
• Baseball -- Fiction
• Mothers and daughters -- Fiction
• truePitchers (Baseball)
• Pitchers (Baseball) -- Fiction
• trueRealistic fiction
• Sex role -- Fiction
• trueSingle-parent families
• trueSports fiction
• trueTeenage boy/girl relations
• trueTeenage girls
• trueMothers and daughters

Genre

• Fiction
• trueFirst person narratives
• trueRealistic fiction
• trueSports fiction
• trueBaseball stories

Language

eng

Summary

Eighth-grader Molly's ability to throw a knuckleball earns her a spot on the baseball team, which not only helps her feel connected to her recently deceased father, who loved baseball, but also helps in other aspects of her life

Tone

• trueMoving

Writing style

• trueEngaging

Character

• trueAuthentic
• trueAwkward

Award

Amelia Bloomer List, 2010

Awards note

Young Hoosier Middle Grades Book Award Nominee, 2011-2012.

Cataloging source

NjBwBT

Dewey number

[Fic]

Index

no index present

LC call number

PZ7.C63972

LC item number

Gir 2010

http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/lexile

750

Literary form

fiction

http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/minGradeLevel

• 5
• 9

Target audience

juvenile