Middle Grade Feature: Red Butterfly

Mama and Daddy never adopted me.
I have no identity,
no mother,
no father,
no little red book
holding all my information
from the People's Republic of China.
Which means,
as far as the government is concerned,
I don't exist.

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Kara is an eleven-year-old Chinese girl who lives with an old American woman whom she calls Mama. Kara was born with a right hand that had stubs instead of fingers and so her birth parents abandoned her. Mama took her in. And there they've been, in China, ever since.


Mama doesn't...