{"id":41,"date":"2013-01-21T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-21T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=41"},"modified":"2013-01-21T16:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T16:00:00","slug":"butterfly-clues-by-kate-ellison-fiction-obsession-loss-mystery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=41","title":{"rendered":"Butterfly Clues, by Kate Ellison (fiction) – obsession, loss, mystery"},"content":{"rendered":"
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If the arrangement is precise<\/a>,
life will fall into place.
If the collection is balanced,
personalities will align again.
If manipulating objects could only heal people…<\/p>\n

Lo isn’t hoarding<\/a>; she’s trying to make sense of hurtful events that seem so random. Even if it puts her in danger, investigating in a bad part of town, compelled to steal<\/a> things to add to the display of possible answers…to find a killer, to discover why her brother left, to find herself.<\/p>\n

It’s No Name-Calling Week<\/a>, highlighting ways we can prevent bullying behavior, put-downs, and harassment, like Lo experienced with the acid-burned photos stuck on her school locker. <\/p>\n

Just out in paperback (look for the blue cover with red butterfly), you’ll also find The Butterfly Clues<\/i>\u00a0 in hardback at your local library<\/a> or independent bookstore.<\/a> <\/p>\n

How much can we rearrange things and people?
**kmm <\/p>\n

Book info<\/b>: The Butterfly Clues \/ Kate Ellison. Egmont USA, hardback 2012, paperback 2013. [author’s website<\/a>] [publisher site<\/a>] [book trailer<\/a>] <\/p>\n

\nMy Recommendation<\/b>:\u00a0 Lo is guided to each object she takes, compelled to arrange them just-so, trying desperately to be unnoticed at school like she is at home, since her brother disappeared. She ignores those who call her Penelope, like Mom ignores the outside world now. <\/div>\n

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She taps significant patterns to keep her safe as she roams neighborhoods to stay out of the too-quiet house. A bang, shattering glass, a bullet in the brick wall nearby \u2013 Lo checks the news online later to discover that a young woman was killed at that moment, in that place, jewelry stolen.<\/div>\n
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At the flea market, a butterfly figurine calls to her to be taken (but-ter-fly, 3 perfect syllables). Lo recognizes it from the news article, stolen from the dead girl Sapphire, she just knows it. Seller says it was in a dumpster, but who\u2019d stick around a murder scene to steal costume jewelry and knick-knacks, then dump them? Something is off-balance here, and Lo can\u2019t stand for anything to be unbalanced, so she starts to investigate.<\/div>\n
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Visiting the gentlemen\u2019s club where Sapphire worked, talking to homeless people, Lo can\u2019t stop looking for things that will unmask the killer. Meeting Flynt the artist is an unexpected bonus, a joy, but can he be trusted not to tell what Lo is doing in this bad part of Cleveland on her own? <\/div>\n
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When the phone rings at home, telling her to mind her own business, Lo is a little worried. When acid-scorched photos appear on her school locker, telling her to back off, she gets anxious. When she sees Flynt\u2019s tattoo and remembers a clue in Sapphire\u2019s house, she gets frantic.<\/div>\n
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Will the killer come to her home?<\/div>\n
Will Flynt deny the connection that Lo has discovered?<\/div>\n
Will she be able to keep her counting compulsions under control long enough to convince the police to do something?<\/div>\n

(One of 6,000 books recommended on www.abookandahug.com<\/a>) Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If the arrangement is precise,life will fall into place.If the collection is balanced,personalities will align again.If manipulating objects could only heal people… Lo isn’t hoarding; she’s trying to make sense of hurtful events that seem so random. Even if it puts her in danger, investigating in a bad part of town, compelled to steal things […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,51],"tags":[22,7,75,11,5,37,16,18,44,39,49,96,15,35,33,60,3,8],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","category-mystery","tag-behavior","tag-beliefs","tag-brothers","tag-communication","tag-coping","tag-death","tag-determination","tag-family","tag-friendship","tag-love","tag-memories","tag-mental-health","tag-relationships","tag-surprises","tag-survival","tag-tbr2012","tag-teens","tag-us-author"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}