This is the story of Celeste who lives on Butterfly Hill in
Chile. When a dictator kills the elected
president and life becomes more and more regulated, Celeste’s parents know that
they need to go into hiding. They have
spoken out for ideas that the new regime does not agree with and people who
think such things have “disappeared”.
Celeste misses her parents but everything becomes even more difficult
until her grandmother decides that she needs to leave until the situation in
Chile has calmed down. Celeste goes to
stay with her aunt in Maine. Life there
is hard. Celeste doesn’t speak much English
at first so making friends and following lessons in school is almost impossible
at first. However, as Celeste begins to
learn English she also begins to learn even more about friendship. This was a really good coming of age
story. I suspect that this was loosely
based on real events in Chile, but based on the true history, I suspect that it
has also been highly fictionalized.
There is nothing in it that dates this for kids in the United States so
this is mostly for kids who like realistic fiction.
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