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A Monarch's Norhtbound Odyssey
Paperback
Publisher Price: $14.95
Publisher: Pinckard Enterprises, LLC
Published: Jul 7 2026
Pages: 92
Weight: 0.34
Height: 0.25 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
A Monarch's Northbound Odyssey is the first book in the Monarch Butterfly Chronicles series, told entirely through the eyes of Jacquie - a monarch butterfly awakening on a mountain in Mexico after a long winter's sleep, preparing to fly north.
Jacquie's journey carries her across the Rio Grande, through the bluebonnet-covered Hill Country of Texas, into the tangled humidity of Louisiana's bayous, and finally to a backyard garden where a white-haired gardener tends milkweed and rears caterpillars with patient, deliberate care. Along the way, she navigates desert crossings, storms, predators, and the quiet miracle of laying her first eggs - each one a compressed inheritance of everything she has survived and everything she knows.
Part nature story, part meditation on legacy and continuity, A Monarch's Northbound Odyssey explores what it means to be one link in a chain larger than any individual life. Through Jacquie's voice, readers encounter the real science of monarch migration - the magnetic compass, the generational relay, the irreplaceable role of milkweed - woven into a narrative that is at once biologically grounded and deeply moving.
The book closes where the prologue begins: a new butterfly spreading perfect wings over a Louisiana garden, ready to carry the journey forward.
A Monarch's Northbound Odyssey is a story for readers of all ages who have ever watched the sky and wondered about the small, extraordinary lives passing through it.
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