Name: Marion's Got the Butterflies
ISBN: 9781665913737

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In the twenty-fourth book of the Critter Club series, Marion volunteers at a butterfly release event and helps her sister get over her fear of bugs! Marion learns that there's going to be a butterfly release event at the Santa Vista Arboretum. And she decides she wants to be a part of it! So she volunteers to spread the word and lead the arts and crafts table at the event. Even though none of her friends can make it, she hopes her younger sister, Gabby, will come. But then she remembers that Gabby is afraid of bugs. Can Marion help the butterflies and help Gabby get over her fear?With easy-to-read language and illustrations on almost every page, The Critter Club chapter books are perfect for beginning readers.

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Chapter 1 M Is for Milkweed

Marion Ballard was searching for a plant whose name starts with the letter C.

She was on the Santa Vista Nature Walk. Her friends, Liz, Amy, and Ellie, followed, their feet crunching on the gravel path. They were playing the Plant Alphabet Game.

“Coneflower!” Liz cried out. She pointed at a purple bloom swaying in the breeze.

Marion turned to face Liz. “Also E for echinacea!” Marion said. “That’s its scientific name.”

“No fair,” said Ellie with a frown. “Marion remembers all the science-y names.”

Marion smiled. She did enjoy flexing her knowledge sometimes. She remembered a lot from when they had helped to create this Nature Walk.

It hadn’t always looked this nice. This part of the park had been overgrown and unused. Once it was almost replaced by a shopping center! Then Marion and the girls found milkweed in the park. They learned it was an important plant for pollinators. So they asked Mayor Gomez and the town council to build the stores somewhere else. And they listened!

Marion, Liz, Amy, and Ellie had made a list of all the plants that grew in the park. Mayor Gomez had educational signs made for each kind. They now dotted the path of the Nature Walk.

“Look!” cried Marion. The path led them past a big patch of milkweed. The flowers were in full bloom. Bees were buzzing all around. Marion even spotted a couple of butterflies.

Amy breathed in. “I can smell it from here!” she said with a smile.

Marion sniffed. A sweet, spicy honey scent filled the air.

At the same time, she was scanning the area for a D plant. “Daffodil!” she called out. “And F for fern,” she said, pointing to some plants growing in the shade of a tree.

Ellie sighed in frustration.

When the girls finished the Nature Walk, they were stuck on the letter J. But they were back where they started, and it was time to go home. Amy’s and Liz’s bikes were parked in the bike rack. Marion and Ellie were getting picked up by Marion’s mom.

While the girls waited, they checked out the park info board. A flyer decorated with butterflies caught Marion’s eye.

“Oh!” Marion said. “Gabby and I went to the ladybug release last year. It was so fun. Well, for me it was. A ladybug landed on Gabby’s head, and she ran in circles, yelling, ‘Get it off!’ ”

Marion did not get her sister. Why was she so afraid of a tiny bug, smaller than her fingernail?

Unlike Gabby, Marion was used to all kinds of wildlife, thanks to The Critter Club. That was the animal rescue center Marion and her friends had started. The girls had taken care of dogs and cats and goldfish. But also a turtle, a pig, and chickens. Once they even helped a boy find his lost chinchilla!