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For Bo and her siblings, the underground fight club may finally provide escape from life with an abusive uncle - but only if she can win.
Never again. That's what seventeen-year-old Bo Clark has promised her two younger siblings, ever since they were put in separate foster homes - a situation that nearly turned deadly for six-year-old Zach, and that they have vowed never to repeat. Bo will do anything to keep that promise. Even if it means enduring the abuse of Uncle Jack, their new guardian. When Jack discovers that Bo is a talented boxer, he signs her up for an underground fight club tournament, which could bring in enough money for her to move out with her siblings as soon as she turns eighteen.
But the ring is a brutal place, and when Bo gets injured, Jack brings a cut man onto the team. Unexpectdly, Liam is a school friend of Bo's, and even as the two of them grow close, she worries that he will go to the authorities if he ever finds out Jack is hurting her.
As Bo makes her way closer to the big prize, Jack starts to think about taking her pro, and in an explosive finale, the violence moves outside the ring, putting everything Bo loves at risk.
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For Bo and her siblings, the underground fight club may finally provide escape from life with an abusive uncle - but only if she can win.
• RULES OF SURVIVAL MEETS FIGHT CLUB: This fast-paced, high-stakes novel tackles loyalty, violence, child protection and a teenager's ability to make good choices when their very survival is in jeopardy.
• NO EASY SOLUTIONS: The Butterfly's Sting is a hard-hitting look at domestic abuse and family violence. Bo and her siblings are trapped in an abusive home with their guardian, Uncle Jack, but Bo's greatest fear is of being split from her brother and sister by the foster care system if Jack's abuse is reported to the authorities - an increasingly common dilemma for children in precarious family situations.
• DEBUT AUTHOR: Abbie Harlow works at a high school in Alameda County, where The Butterfly's Sting is set. This book draws on her own family history of abuse, as well as by the experiences of the students who come through her office each day.
Biographical information;chapters;dialogue;epigraph
Never again. That's what seventeen-year-old Bo Clark has promised her two younger siblings, ever since they were put in separate foster homes - a situation that nearly turned deadly for six-year-old Zach, and that they have vowed never to repeat. Bo will do anything to keep that promise. Even if it means enduring the abuse of Uncle Jack, their new guardian. When Jack discovers that Bo is a talented boxer, he signs her up for an underground fight club tournament, which could bring in enough money for her to move out with her siblings as soon as she turns eighteen.
But the ring is a brutal place, and when Bo gets injured, Jack brings a cut man onto the team. Unexpectdly, Liam is a school friend of Bo's, and even as the two of them grow close, she worries that he will go to the authorities if he ever finds out Jack is hurting her.
As Bo makes her way closer to the big prize, Jack starts to think about taking her pro, and in an explosive finale, the violence moves outside the ring, putting everything Bo loves at risk.
Key Text Features
Biographical information
chapters
dialogue
epigraph
For Bo and her siblings, the underground fight club may finally provide escape from life with an abusive uncle - but only if she can win.
• RULES OF SURVIVAL MEETS FIGHT CLUB: This fast-paced, high-stakes novel tackles loyalty, violence, child protection and a teenager's ability to make good choices when their very survival is in jeopardy.
• NO EASY SOLUTIONS: The Butterfly's Sting is a hard-hitting look at domestic abuse and family violence. Bo and her siblings are trapped in an abusive home with their guardian, Uncle Jack, but Bo's greatest fear is of being split from her brother and sister by the foster care system if Jack's abuse is reported to the authorities - an increasingly common dilemma for children in precarious family situations.
• DEBUT AUTHOR: Abbie Harlow works at a high school in Alameda County, where The Butterfly's Sting is set. This book draws on her own family history of abuse, as well as by the experiences of the students who come through her office each day.
Biographical information;chapters;dialogue;epigraph