An engaging mystery starring a teen girl with obsessivecompulsive disorder. When penelope discovers an old but beautiful butterfly pendant, she learns that it had belonged to a. Lo short for penelope, taps, counts, and believes in the power of numbers, not because she chooses to, but because she has to. Penelope lo marin has always loved to collect beautiful things. Kate ellison butterfly clues, zeta elliot a wish after midnight, josh berk the dark days of hamburger halpin, and james lecesne absolute brightness and founder of the trevor project.
All content included on our site, such as text, images, digital downloads and other, is the property of its content suppliers and protected by us and international laws. Cornered jefferson county public library overdrive. Always update books hourly, if not looking, search in the book search column. Featuring some of the hottest voices in ya literature, both bestselling and on the rise, cornered includes works from kirsten miller new york times bestseller the eternal ones, jennifer brown hate list, elizabeth miles fury, jaime adoff the death of jayson porter, lish mcbride morris award finalist hold me closer, necromancer, matthue. Therefore it need a free signup process to obtain the book. Kate ellisons the butterfly clues has a lot in common with such novels as extremely loud and incredibly close and the curious incident of the dog in the nighttime. All three have a poetic, introspective style that is very revealing but can be ultimately frustrating. The butterfly clues alameda county library overdrive.
She explores far from home, taking buses, going farther and farther away from her safe home and school. Since the death of her brother oren a year earlier, penelope known as lo has become an obsessive hoarder who has to perform a succession of rituals just to get herself through the day. The butterfly clues has a lot going for it an engaging and different heroine, a convoluted murder mystery and a teenage romance with real chemistry and feeling that doesnt become saccharine or overwrought. Her dads consulting job means shes grown up moving from one rundown city to the next, and shes learned to cope by collecting sometimes even stealing quirky trinkets and souvenirs in each new place possessions that allow her. The butterfly clues by kate ellison, therese plummer. Wandering in an unfamiliar cleveland neighborhood, lo, whos recently. See all books authored by kate ellison, including the butterfly clues, and notes from ghost town, and more on. The butterfly clues by kate ellison glasstown entertainment. In the year following the death of her brother, oren, penelope lo marin has been looking, searching, for something. The butterfly clues book by kate ellison thriftbooks. The butterfly clues kindle edition by kate ellison. Her dads consulting job means shes grown up moving from one rundown city to.
Shes obsessed with numbers and cans even permit a tap on her shoulder without tapping herself to bring the number of taps to her current oddnumber obsession. Contemporary, mysterythriller, young adult publisher. Cornered north dakota digital consortium overdrive. Cornered navy general library program downloadable books. Kate ellisons breakout novel the butterfly clues explores the life of a girl who is consumed by her compulsions until the murder of a young girl in the wrong part of town becomes her biggest obsession. Kate ellison books list of books by author kate ellison. The butterfly clues central texas digital consortium. There are more than 1 million books that have been enjoyed by people from all over the world. Sheba karim skunk girl, kate ellison butterfly clues, zeta elliot a wish after midnight.
Cornered oregon digital library consortium overdrive. The butterfly clues by kate ellison overdrive rakuten. The need to tap, count, and pay homage to rituals can be completely debilitating, and very few people understand it completely. With an intriguing beginning and a simple, easy, almost sparse style of writing, this is a novel that sneaks up on you and can be. Learn more about cornered in the jefferson county public library digital collection. Hello everybody and welcome to another giveaway which we are running in conjunction with paper lantern lit, a boutique literary development company committed to quality fiction and fresh voices. As she attempts to piece together the mysterious butterfly clues, with the unlikely help of a street artist named flynt, lo.
Buy a cheap copy of the butterfly clues book by kate ellison. The little butterfly by sherry shahan in epub, fb3, txt download ebook. Kate ellison trained as an actor in chicago and has walked across the entire country of spain. It does not necessarily take a fist to create a punch in the gut. Narrated in the first person by penelope, the novel delves into the mind of a girl driven and trapped by her compulsions. By kate ellison the butterfly clues by kate ellison fascinating.
If it available for your country it will shown as book reader and user fully subscribe will benefit by having full. A signed copy of the butterfly clues by kate ellison. All three revolve around obsessive protagonists bent on solving a mystery. Get ebooks butterfly yellow on pdf, epub, tuebl, mobi and audiobook for free. Read cornered 14 stories of bullying and defiance by available from rakuten kobo. Gr 9 uppenelope lo, the protagonist in kate ellisons murder mystery egmont usa, 2012, suffers from obsessivecompulsive disorder ocd and also has an urge to steal. Kissing doorknobs by terry spencer hesser download pdf.
The debut novel from kate ellison, the butterfly clues is an incisive, unflinching novel that is often painful to read, but brilliant because of it. A book trailer for kate ellisons young adult fiction novel the butterfly clues published by paper lantern literature. The butterfly clues king county library system overdrive. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets.
If you like the butterfly clues you might like similar books au revoir, crazy european chick, the sleepwalkers, five flavors of dumb, imaginary girls, speechless. Learn more about cornered in the oregon digital library consortium digital collection. See more ideas about books for teens, ya books and books. It is made up of old houses, clubs, bars, and abandoned buildings. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading the butterfly clues. Today we are giving away a signed copy of ya thriller the butterfly clues by kate ellison, out on february 14. Kate ellison when penelope lo marin discovers a beautiful antique butterfly pendant at a flea market, she thinks its just another thing to add to her collection. She has to tap three times and say the word banana before she enters a room. Cornered hawaii state public library system overdrive.
1223 542 407 900 1239 1437 887 1214 1083 82 952 243 872 206 1170 456 320 835 138 203 93 205 861 270 562 526 1569 465 1132 473 1315 891 1057 1230 195 120 370 1395 537 677 1161 681 1257 1368 311 1396 170 73 601 1495