Tangled Butterfly
by Marion Dane Bauer
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After an outburst at her brother's wedding, 17-year-old Michelle is taken to Minnesota's Apostle Islands for a rest and there meets Paul, a young Native American writer who is the first to sense how deeply disturbed she is.Tags
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Although this thirty-year-old story shows its age in a lot of ways, the plot and the characters are timeless. An obviously mentally ill teenage girl, whose family refuses to see her problems staring them right in the face, encounters a young teacher and writer who, racked with guilt at his failure to prevent a former student's suicide, tries to help her. The rural Minnesota setting and Indian traditions add flavor to the plot, and the kidnapped baby subplot adds suspense.
This book is similar to the far better known I Never Promised You a Rose Garden and Lisa, Bright and Dark, but in my opinion it's a much better story. A pity it's so obscure.
This book is similar to the far better known I Never Promised You a Rose Garden and Lisa, Bright and Dark, but in my opinion it's a much better story. A pity it's so obscure.
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Marion Dane Bauer was born in Oglesby, Illinois. She attended community college first, in her home town, and then went to the University of Missouri when she was a junior to study journalism. She quickly realized that journalism was not for her and changed her focus to the humanities and a degree in English literature. She switched one last time show more to focus on teaching english, which she did when she graduated college. After her children were born, Bauer decided to try her hand at writing. She started out with a children's picture book, but discovered that youg adult novels were more to her taste. After making a career out of writing, Bauer became the first Faculty Chair at Vermont College for the only Master of Fine Arts in Writing program devoted exclusively to writing for children and young adults. Bauer is the author of more than forty books for young people. She has won many awards, including a Jane Addams Peace Association Award for her novel Rain of Fire and an American Library Association Newbery Honor Award for On My Honor and the Kerlan Award from the University of Minnesota for the body of her work. Her picture book My Mother is Mine was a New York Times bestseller. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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