The diner bell rings. Fourteen-year old Mila barely hears it over her friend Dalene’s incessant chatting and the slurp of her strawberry shake. But the deafening silence afterward makes her look up. It’s 1963 in Savannah, Georgia and sit-ins have spread like wild fire across the south. That day in Jimmy's diner, Mila finds herself in the middle of one.
She watches in wonderment as the sixteen-year-old Aaron leads the teenagers to their seats at the counter. After their abrupt exit, Dalene babbles on about the girls impending summer, but Mila can’t concentrate. When her looming Victorian house comes into view, she is distracted by yet another stranger. This time a young woman, standing by the backyard gazebo. Just as Mila calls out to her, the girl vanishes.
From the moment Mila sees the young freedom fighter Aaron in her favorite diner, strange things begin to happen. When she realizes the mysterious girl standing by the gazebo needs her help, she sets out to solve her very first ghost story, in the meantime emerging deeper and deeper into the Civil rights movement.
A supernatural middle grade novel wrapped in historical fiction, The Ghost and the Butterfly takes us on a journey with Mila Dasher, an ordinary teenage girl who gets pushed into extraordinary circumstances and finds her place.
She watches in wonderment as the sixteen-year-old Aaron leads the teenagers to their seats at the counter. After their abrupt exit, Dalene babbles on about the girls impending summer, but Mila can’t concentrate. When her looming Victorian house comes into view, she is distracted by yet another stranger. This time a young woman, standing by the backyard gazebo. Just as Mila calls out to her, the girl vanishes.
From the moment Mila sees the young freedom fighter Aaron in her favorite diner, strange things begin to happen. When she realizes the mysterious girl standing by the gazebo needs her help, she sets out to solve her very first ghost story, in the meantime emerging deeper and deeper into the Civil rights movement.
A supernatural middle grade novel wrapped in historical fiction, The Ghost and the Butterfly takes us on a journey with Mila Dasher, an ordinary teenage girl who gets pushed into extraordinary circumstances and finds her place.
