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Maps of Memory, The: Return to Butterfly Hill
Marjorie Agosín
Illustrator: Lee White
Ages: 12+
Published: 2020
Publisher: Atheneum BFYR/S&S
ISBN: 978-1-481469-01-2
Keywords: Chile, dictatorship, friendship, torture, family life
Fourteen-year-old Celeste returns to Chile from Maine to uncover the truth about what happened in Valparaíso during the dictatorship and to find Lucila, her missing friend.