Paper Butterflies

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I really loved the structure of this book and the fact we flipped from June’s young life and upwards whilst also fast forwarding to the ‘After’. The big reveal of the ‘After’ was a huge surprise to me. I had no idea it was coming and I definitely wasn’t expecting it. The last few chapters of this book gave me so much to think about and I have to thank Lisa Heathfield for that. She truly brings into question the importance of a victim speaking out and shows that by not speaking out things can get even worse than imaginable. I would hope that reading this book may give encouragement to victims of abuse to feel able to talk to someone, to push past that barrier of fearing they will not be believed and to communicate their pain to someone.

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June's dad just annoyed me so much. I know that he didn't know the abuse was going on but whenever June tried to tell him that her step-family hated her and that they were mean to her, the Dad just brushed it off and told June to stop being silly. I mean, c'mon! That's just crazy! How can a parent be so careless?! He would tell June all of the time how much he loved her but then didn't even listen to what she was saying. Well done, Dad. Well done. I feel very proud to be reviewing this book on my blog and my friendship with Lisa by no means affects my views and thoughts on the book in anyway. I hope my words speak for themselves about how wonderful this book really is! The only moments of hope within this book, in fact, come from her relationship with a boy (of course) down the street. I’ve talked before about the ways in which the trend of using romance as the way to spur a character’s self-actualization is harmful and creates stagnant narratives (although apparently, not in a full blog post that I can helpfully link to?). The problem with using a romance to spur self-actualization for a child or teen is that relationships in which one person is incredibly isolated from others, especially family members, can very easily turn abusive without any oversight. This is not to say that abuse survivors should not date, but that to a teenager without a support system, reading YA, the idea of a romantic relationship being the only good thing in your life can seem very easy and very appealing, and thus it can be very easy to ignore warning signs. Utilizing romance as the main source of light in a dark book also, frankly, leads to very stagnant narratives, and has also been done before about ten thousand times. (I’m bored.) It made sense—the small outline of a butterfly I had tattooed on the inside of my arm that I’d caught him staring at a handful of times. I did like butterflies, though I wasn’t sure why. Just another calming thing to look at, I guess—kind of like Neil, really. But my mind had tangled itself up in a mess of thoughts, one screaming out louder than the others: Why the hell was he giving me these? I loved Olivia’s wit and sarcasm and there were other fun characters that really contributed to this love story. YA romance? Yeah, I’m digging it.An emotional tale of an abusive childhood, growing up, friendship, love, forgiveness and choosing left or right. He was right side up, and I was upside down, and I didn't want to live with two feet on the ground, I was happy in my chaos, and he was the straightest arrow I'd ever seen."

Paper Butterflies by Lisa Heathfield - LoveReading4Kids

Stand By Me meets We Were Liars- a heartbreaking and stunning breakout novel for teenagersfrom the award-nominated author of Seed.And I still had to tell him about the bet, but right now seemed like an increasingly stupid time to do so. I knew what I’d said, about wanting to slip inside his world, and take a nap in it, or whatever. But I’d been in a vulnerable place, okay? I hadn’t seen my brother in weeks. And he had just left me— again. Neil’s face had felt like a ray of sunshine on a dark and shitty day. Michelle did it again and wrote something so beautiful and so relatable that this book had me inhaling every word. Being a YA book, this book doesn't really go beyond kissing, but the way she writes the kissing in this book...WOW. It didn't leave me wanting them to go further. But it also felt true and believable to the situation. So this paper butterfly craft is just the thing for them. It is a great way to help them concentrate and follow a simple pattern and introduces the basis of origami for kids. To open this book is to step into a disturbing world – June’s world. June is a young girl who lives with her step-mother and step-sister. Her dad lives there too, except he’s away a good deal, working. June’s mother died, she drowned.