I Lived on Butterfly Hill

A middle grade historical novel about Celeste Marconi, an eleven-year-old growing up in Valparaiso, Chile. When warships come to town and her classmates start disappearing, she doesn’t know what to make of it. No one is safe, not even her parents who are now considered dangerous to Chile’s future under Pinochet’s takeover. Before they go into hiding, they send Celeste to Maine but she never stops longing to return to Chile and be reunited with her parents. Marjorie Agosín is an award-winning poet who based this on her own life experiences. Translated from the Spanish by E.M. O'Connor.