But their journey will be anything but easy, for wicked creatures seek to ensnare them and the Garza sisters will need to be brave and faithful to one another if they wish to ever return home.” You can read my full review here. When they find a body in their hidden sanctuary, instead of calling the authorities, the sisters are determined to return him to his family in Mexico. The summer a swarm of butterflies takes over their town of Eagle Pass, Texas, the sisters spend their days at a secluded swimming hole fed from the Rio Grande. “Odilia and her four little sisters have one rule: cinco hermanitas, together forever. Despite this, I’m looking forward to picking up another book by this author.

This book had a lot of great elements, but I was looking for something a little darker. This NO PREP book study teaching unit has everything that you will need to teach and assess the novel, including an extension activity to compare and contrast the novel with Homers Odyssey. It happens to all of us, right? (Technically it isn’t late because I’m doing it the night before, but I’m used to doing it earlier than now and it feels late to me and now I’m just rambling because it’s late and I should be sleeping) Guadalupe Garcia McCall’s Summer of the Mariposas is a story of five sisters who travel to Mexico and discover what it really means to be a family. This is a 100+ page, Common Core aligned, complete novel study for Summer of the Mariposas by Guadalupe Garcia McCall. “If doing something as simple as returning a dead man to his family would save our family, shouldn’t I try?”Ĭonfession time: I very nearly forgot to do this post tonight. **Be sure to leave a link to your Friday 56 post in the comments!** *Find any sentence (or a few, just don’t spoil it) that grab you. Join us every Friday and share an excerpt from a book you’re been reading. The Friday 56 is a weekly blog meme hosted by Freda’s Voice.

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