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The butterfly clues, Kate Ellison

eng

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Young Adult790, Lexile

novels

The butterfly clues

726819810

Kate Ellison

Accelerated Reader, 5.0.Reading Counts!, 6.2.

Having experienced compulsive behavior all her life, Lo's symptoms are getting her into trouble when she witnesses a murder while wandering dangerous quarters of Cleveland, Ohio, collecting things that do not belong to her, and obsessing about her brother's death

Penelope (Lo) Marin has always loved to collect beautiful things. She's grown up moving from one rundown city to the next, and she's learned to cope by collecting trinkets in each new place. But in the year since her brother Oren's death, Lo's hoarding has blossomed into a full-blown, potentially dangerous obsession. She discovers a beautiful, antique butterfly pendant, and recognises it as having been stolen from the home of a recently murdered girl known only as Sapphire. As she attempts to piece together the mysterious butterfly clues, Lo quickly finds herself caught up in a seedy, violent underworld much closer to home than she ever imagined -- a world, she'll ultimately discover, that could hold the key to her brother's tragic death

adolescent