My Fate According to the Butterfly

✍ Scribed by Gail Villanueva

• Book ID: 100265810
• Publisher: Scholastic Inc.;Scholastic Press
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 578 KB
• Edition: First edition
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 133831050X

✦ Synopsis

• "Villanueva's debut is a beautiful #ownvoices middle-grade novel. Tough topics — the brutal war on drugs in the Philippines, family reconciliation, and recovery — are addressed, but warmth and humor... bring lightness to Sab's story. This immersive novel bursts with life." — Kirkus Reviews , starred review
  When superstitious Sab sees a giant black butterfly, an omen of death, she knows that she's doomed! According to legend, she has one week before her fate catches up with her — on her 11th birthday. With her time running out, all she wants is to celebrate her birthday with her entire family. But her sister, Ate Nadine, stopped speaking to their father one year ago, and Sab doesn't even know why.
  If Sab's going to get Ate Nadine and their father to reconcile, she'll have to overcome her fears — of her sister's anger, of leaving the bubble of her sheltered community, of her upcoming doom — and figure out the cause of their rift.
  So Sab and her best friend...