Summary of The Girl Who Threw Butterflies by Mick Cochrane.
In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez Set during the waning days of the Trujillo dictatorship in the Dominican Republic in 1960, this extraordinary novel tells the story of the Mirabal sisters, three young wives and mothers who are assassinated after visiting their jailed husbands.
With tender poignancy, Cochrane gets right to the heart of young Molly's painful journey. Her father died in an accident, and her mother has withdrawn to deal with her own pain. She shared a love of baseball with her father, which seems to be her only tenuous connection to the happiness she once knew. He taught her how to throw a knuckleball, and she uses that unique skill to join the boys.
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The River Between study guide contains a biography of Ngugi wa Thiong.. Summary. Chapter 1. A river flows between the two ridges of Kameno and Makuyu in Kenya. The valley is called the valley of life and the river is called Honia, or “cure.”. She says she wants to be a woman: a real girl who knows the ways of the hills and the ridges.
At the boarding school, Minerva meets a poor girl named Sinita. She's dressed in black and is all alone—no mother to drop her off. Minerva gives her a sparkly button she'd found on the train as a friendship button.
The girl’s family never returns leaving her to think she was the last person in the world. CHAPTER 2-The girl worries about the approaching person, which she now knows is a man covered entirely by a helmet and suit. She tries her best to make the valley look uninhabited for the arrival of the mystery person.