what is the book day of the butterfly by alice munro about?
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This website might be of some help.
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It is a story about a young boy who is sent to a concentration camp in WWII by the Nazis and how he endures and manages to live through it all. It is a story about the Holocaust. It is brief and is an excellent read. READ it.\n\nGood luck.
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bad day by daniel poweter
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This was a very enjoyable book, I first read it about 15 years ago.  It is semi-autobiographical in that the author is a pilot and the narrator of the book is a pilot who meets a man with an interesting insight into the human condition and who appears to be a messiah.\n\nThe book is full of memorable lines and makes the reader contemplate life and why we are here.  I definitely recommend it. \n\nThe following link has a number of quotes from the book.
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The Big Orange Splot by Daniel Manus Pinkwater\nThe Paperbag Princess by Robert Munsch\nThe Jacket I Wear in the Snow by Shirley Neitzel\nAraboolies of Liberty Street by Sam Swope\nSam, Bangs & Moonshine by Evaline Ness\nIan's Walk: A Story About Autism by Laura Lears\n\nI'd do any books that aren't by Dr. Suess or isn't 'Where the Wild Things Are' bcause they are soooooo popular
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One only needs to read "Animal Farm" (by George Orwell). On the surface it appears to be just another fairy tale with animals, but it's actually an allegory about the Communist Revolution. The various characters in the book represent real historical figures or organisational entities.
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bad day by daniel powter.
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Handmaids Tale is a great book with great concepts.  I have taught this book along with Orwell's 1984 and others for my senior english lit class.  \nThe book has a great deal to do with takeovers of society, the impact of inaction/action in society, and women's rights.  I enjoy teaching it to seniors because they are all turning 18 at the time (voting age) and they are inspired to vote to prevent government from taking over, or even burning books like in Bradbury's Farenheit 451!  \nIt is also great to use in debating!  Have fun.
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Queen Alexandra's Birdwing is the largest butterfly in the world, with a wingspan up to 1 foot (30 cm). This tropical butterfly is from the Rainforest in northern Papua New Guinea. The caterpillars eat the pipevine plant, which contains poison; this makes the butterfly toxic to predators, which will get sick if they eat it. They quickly learn to leave these huge butterflies alone.\n\nAlso just for your edification, the smallest butterfly is the Nepticulid moth, which is 0.1 inch long.
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My edited version below:\n\nMost people believe that their everyday life is full of many treacherous problems, but their problems pale in comparison to the life of a young girl living during the The Great Dust Bowl. Written by Karen Hesse, the novel Out of the Dust tells the story of a young girl and her family as they struggle to survive through The Great Dust Bowl. At first, Billy Jo’s life is as normal as any girl living during this time, but a series of unfortunate events leads to the loss of a loved one. She wakes up every morning to the feeling of loneliness and sorrow as her relationship with her father blows away in the dust. Without a doubt, Billy Jo faces many life changing conflicts, including the guilt of accidentally killing her mother, horrible dust storms, and an unstable relationship with her father.
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The author is Susan E. Eck. I don't know where you can purchase it but here is her contact information: http://www.susaneck.ca/contact.htm\n\nWebsite with her poetry: http://www.susaneck.ca/poems.htm\nWebsite with poetry from the book: http://www.poetry.com/publications/InternetBook.asp?FullName=A+Treasured+Token
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I LOVE THAT BOOK.  I'm puerto rican and I totally related to that book.  In a nutshell , it's a non fiction story about girl who was raised in Puerto Rico in her childhood years, then moves to brooklyn with her mother and many brother's and sisters.  She discusses the ups and downs of her family life, dealing the with her identity as a Puerto Rican and an American.  She's telling the story how she saw her mother as woman who continually had children, and her yearning to be back in her homeland.  She was used to living in country and being able to enjoy nature, unlike her life in brooklyn, where they had to struggle for everything.  I hope this helps you a little bit.  If you're Puerto Rican, read the book!!!
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A butterfly flaps its wings and it rains in new york\n\nA man says happy birthday at Strom Thurmon's party and he is forced to resign
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Written by  Dorothea MacKellar about Australia...and I couldnt agree more\n\nThe love of field and coppice,\n  Of green and shaded Lanes,\n  Of ordered woods and gardens,\n  Is running in your veins;\n  Strong love of grey-blue distance,\n  Brown streams and soft, dim skies -\n  I know but cannot share it,\n  My love is otherwise.\n\nI love a sunburnt country,\n  A land of sweeping plains,\n  Of ragged mountain ranges,\n  Of drought and flooding rains,\n  I love her far horizons,\n  I love her jewel sea,\n  Her beauty and her terror -\n  The wide brown land for me.\n\nThe tragic ring-barked forests\n  Stark white beneath the moon,\n  The sapphire-misted mountains,\n  The hot gold hush of noon.\n  Green tangle of the brushes\n  Where lithe lianas coil,\n  An orchids deck the tree-tops\n  And ferns the crimson soil.\n\nCore of my heart, my country!\n  Her pitiless blue sky,\n  When sick at heart around us\n  We see the cattle die -\n  But then the grey clouds gather\n  And we can bless again\n  The drumming of an army,\n  The steady, soaking rain.\n\nCore of my heart, my country!\n  Land of the Rainbow Gold,\n  For flood and fire and famine,\n  She pays us back threefold;\n  Over the thirsty paddocks,\n  Watch, after many days, \n  The filmy veil of greenness\n  That thickens as we gaze.\n\nAn opal-hearted country,\n  A wilful, lavish land -\n  All you who have not loved her,\n  You will not understand -\n  Though Earth holds many splendours,\n  Wherever I may die,\n  I know to what brown Country\n  My homing thoughts will fly.
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Umm i read that book last year.... but maybe this can help \n\nWilliam Golding presented numerous themes and basic ideas that give the reader something to think about. One of the most basic and obvious themes is that society holds everyone together, and without these conditions, our ideals, values, and the basics of right and wrong are lost. Without society's rigid rules, anarchy and savagery can come to light.\n\nGolding is also showing that morals come directly from our surroundings, and if there is no civilization around us, we will lose these values.\n\nOther secondary themes include the following:\n\nPeople will abuse power when it's not earned. \n*When given a chance, people often single out another to degrade to improve their own security. \n*You can only cover up inner savagery so long before it breaks out, given the right situation. \n*It's better to examine the consequences of a decision before you make it than to discover them afterward. \n*The fear of the unknown can be a powerful force, which can turn you to either insight or hysteria. \n\n\nummm this is yahoo india, they read that book in india?
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The Giver by Lois Lowry\n\nI have found 6 summaries for you to look at, via the links below. \n\nhttp://litsum.com/giver/\n\nhttp://www.freebooknotes.com/book.php3?id=1061\n\nhttp://www.antistudy.com/search.php?title=The+Giver+by+Lois+Lowry+\n\nThese links will give you a summary of the book, character analysis, plot and much more, so that you will be able to answer literary questions. A short extract is included as an example of what you can expect from the summary.\n\nLowry narrates The Giver in third person (“He said,” as opposed to “I said,” which is called first person), using a limited omniscient viewpoint (only Jonas’ thoughts and feelings are revealed). Through Jonas’ eyes, his community appears to be a utopia—a perfect place—that is self-contained and isolated from Elsewhere, every other place in the world.  More……..\n\nhttp://www.cliffsnotes.com/WileyCDA/LitNote/id-113,pageNum-3.html\n\nhttp://www.schoolbytes.com/summary.php?id=347\n\nGood luck.\n\nKevin, Liverpool, England.
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"Siddhartha," by Hermann Hesse.