Butterflies by Leigh Gordon Giltner
When seventeen-year-old Leigh Gordon Giltner's father dies, she is left with a broken heart and a broken home. With her mother's help, Leigh moves to a small town in the Midwest to start a new life. Butterflies follows Leigh as she navigates her new life, making friends, finding love, and learning to cope with her grief. Along the way, she discovers the power of hope and the beauty of life's simple moments. Butterflies is a story of resilience and courage, and a reminder that even in the darkest of times, there is always a light at the end of the tunnel.
By Leigh Gordon Giltner · First published 1900 · Genre: Fiction, Romance, Young Adult · 32 words
First lines
As if a bed of bloom had taken wing-- Bright marigolds, nasturtiums, zinnias gay--
They breast the breeze or, lightly poising, cling To other flowers not animate as they.
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Butterflies is listed on Textopian as a short story by Leigh Gordon Giltner, dated 1900 CE.
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- Work type: Short story
- Author: Leigh Gordon Giltner
- Date: 1900 CE
- Language: English
- Genres: Fiction, Romance, Young Adult, Contemporary, Women's Fiction
- Length: 32 words
- Structure: 1 section, 2 paragraphs
- Reading fit: Fairly Difficult (10th-12th Grade)
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Genres
- Fiction — Butterflies is a novel written by Leigh Gordon Giltner, making it a work of fiction.
- Romance — Butterflies is a story of love and relationships, making it a romance novel.
- Young Adult — Butterflies is a novel about a young woman's journey of self-discovery, making it a young adult novel.
- Contemporary — Butterflies is set in the present day, making it a contemporary novel.
Tags
American poetry · animate · bed · bloom · breast · breeze · bright · flowers · gay · lightly · marigolds · nasturtiums