Grace and the Butterfly Effect
1st Edition
Published on 7. October 2025
86 pages
978-1-950515-10-3 (ISBN)
Description
Every time Grace tries to leap, she falls. She refuses to quit. As she practices for her ballet recital, she crashes through a fence and crushes some milkweed plants--the only place the monarch butterfly will lay her eggs. After Grace rescues a broken plant, she finds three monarch eggs. She decides to help the future butterflies grow. How hard could that be? Very--if you have teasing brothers, doubting friends, humiliating dance rehearsals, and can't find milkweed. But monarchs need more than milkweed, they need safe habitats.
Can Grace persuade her friends and family to help the monarchs? Can she start a Butterfly Effect, so the monarchs--and Grace--can become who they were meant to be?
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JANE KELLEY is the author of many middle-grade children's novels and non-fiction books. Her first novel, Nature Girl (Random House 2010), is a humorous adventure story beloved by readers everywhere. Other novels have received multiple awards, including The Desperate Adventures of Zeno and Alya, which was chosen as a Best Book of 2014 by the Cooperative Children's Book Council. Jane graduated from Northwestern University with a degree in theater. She has taught workshops for adults and kids all over the country. After raising their daughter in New York City, she and her husband now live at the edge of a magical woods in Fairy Chasm, Wisconsin. For more information, please visit https://janekelleybooks.com/.
