When the Butterflies Came

by Kimberley Griffiths Little

Book Overview

A moving story of a young girl's struggle with love, loss, family, and magic from author Kimberley Griffiths Little. Twelve-year-old Tara Doucet is coping with the death of her beloved grandmother and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0545541506
• ISBN13: 9780545541503
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: Scholastic
• Length: 330 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.

Customer Reviews

The Perfect Realm of Fantasy

Some may call throwing in a romantic subplot to sweeten up your readers cheap. And it is. But it's 2021. Who doesn’t like cheap??? In all seriousness, there's a lot of things making me rate this higher than I probably should. There is a soft spot in my heart for books that involve mysterious keys. I don't know why. It's the same with books where you go into a room and suddenly there's 2000 doors leading to mysterious places (which thankfully, this book didn't have, or I'd have had to rate it 5 stars). Something about special keys and doors make me so happy. Then you've got the magical butterflies, and the island setting, and the love story, and just <3333 I know this book has flaws. The writing style is not great, the plotline with the mother is weird, and the ending is cheap. If I was being objective, I'd probably rate it 3 cows, or perhaps 2 and a calf. But it's so -my- kind of a book I can't help but give it 4. It didn't even give me the heartwarming grandma-granddaughter vibes I desired. It was just so... mystical.