The Girl Who Threw Butterflies (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780375846106)

For an eighth grader, Molly Williams has more than her fair share of problems. Her father has just died in a car accident, and her mother has become a withdrawn, quiet version of herself.

Molly doesn't want to be seen as "Miss Difficulty Overcome"; she wants to make herself known to the kids at school for something other than her father's death. So she decides to join the baseball team. The boys' baseball team. Her father taught her how to throw a knuckleball, and Molly hopes it's enough to impress her coaches as well as her new teammates.

Over the course of one baseball season, Molly must figure out how to redefine her relationships to things she loves, loved, and might love: her mother; her brilliant best friend, Celia; her father; her enigmatic and artistic teammate, Lonnie; and of course, baseball.

Mick Cochrane is a professor of English and the Lowery Writer-in-Residence at Canisius College in Buffalo, New York, where he lives with his wife and two sons.

Author: Mick Cochrane
ISBN-10: 0375846107
ISBN-13: 9780375846106
Publisher: Yearling Books
Language: English
Published: 02/09/2010
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 7.60h x 5.10w x 0.60d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 5.1
Point Value: 7
Interest Level: Middle Grade Plus
Quiz #/Name: 128825 / Girl Who Threw Butterflies

Award: Massachusetts Children's Book Award - Nominee
Award: Young Hoosier Book Award - Nominee
Award: Sequoyah Book Awards - Nominee
Award: Sunshine State Young Reader's Award - Nominee
Award: Rebecca Caudill Young Readers Book Award - Nominee