num_pages: 240
description: * Villanueva's debut is a beautiful #ownvoices middle-grade novel. Tough topics are addressed but warmth and humor... bring lightness to Sab's story. This immersive novel bursts with life. -- Kirkus Reviews  starred review When superstitious Sab sees a giant black butterfly an omen of death she knows that she's doomed! According to legend she has one week before her fate catches up with her -- on her 11th birthday. With her time running out all she wants is to celebrate her birthday with her entire family. But her sister Ate Nadine stopped speaking to their father one year ago and Sab doesn't even know why.If Sab's going to get Ate Nadine and their father to reconcile she'll have to overcome her fears -- of her sister's anger of leaving the bubble of her sheltered community of her upcoming doom -- and figure out the cause of their rift.So Sab and her best friend Pepper start spying on Nadine and digging into their family's past to determine why exactly Nadine won't speak to their father. But Sab's adventures across Manila reveal truths about her family more difficult -- and dangerous -- than she ever anticipated.Was the Butterfly right? Perhaps Sab is doomed after all!
language: English
title: My Fate According to the Butterfly
publisher: Scholastic Press