The butterfly

Resource Information

The work The butterfly represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Chemeketa Cooperative Regional Library Service (CCRLS). This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

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Label

The butterfly

Statement of responsibility

Patricia Polacco

Creator

• truePolacco, Patricia

Contributor

• Philomel Books

Author

• truePolacco, Patricia

Illustrator

• truePolacco, Patricia

Publisher

• Philomel Books

Subject

• Picture books for children
• trueTeenage soldiers
• trueUnion soldiers
• trueUnited States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
• trueUnited States Civil War, 1861-1865
• trueWorld War II -- France
• World War, 1939-1945 -- France -- Fiction
• World War, 1939-1945 -- France -- Juvenile fiction
• 1939-1945
• trueAfrican Americans
• trueAntisemitism
• trueButterflies
• trueCivil war
• Fiction
• France
• trueFrance -- History -- German occupation, 1940-1945
• France -- History -- German occupation, 1940-1945 -- Fiction
• France -- History -- German occupation, 1940-1945 -- Juvenile fiction
• trueFrench Resistance (World War II)
• trueFriendship
• German Occupation of France, 1940-1945
• trueGirls
• trueHiding
• Historical fiction
• Historical fiction
• Historical fiction
• History
• trueInterracial friendship,
• trueJewish families
• trueJewish girls
• Jews
• Jews -- France -- Fiction
• Jews -- France -- Juvenile fiction
• Juvenile works
• trueNazis -- France
• truePrisoners of war
• trueTeenage boys

Genre

• trueHistory
• Fiction
• Picture books for children
• Juvenile works
• Juvenile fiction
• Historical fiction

Language

eng

Summary

During the Nazi occupation of France, Monique's mother hides a Jewish family in her basement and tries to help them escape to freedom

Tone

• trueSerious
• trueMoving

Character

• trueReligiously diverse

Illustration

• trueDetailed

Award

Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Awards, Grades 3-6, 2003.

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

• [Fic]
• 813
• [E]
• [Fic]

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Intended audience

630

Intended audience source

Lexile

Interest level

• LG
• 3-5

LC call number

PZ7.P75186

LC item number

Pap 2000

Literary form

fiction

http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/minGradeLevel

• -1
• 3

NLM call number

000105379

Reading level

• 3.8.
• 4.1.
• 3.8
• 4.1

Study program name

• Accelerated Reader
• Reading Counts!
• Accelerated Reader AR
• Reading Counts RC

Target audience

primary