Racing with Butterflies: 2 (Nature Club)

Welcome to The Nature Club!The Nature Club books invite you to explore the outdoors with Izzy Tai Brooke Zack and Miguel. Through their adventures they learn to help the wildlife they love while helping each other with the challenges of growing up. Will Tais horse ride in the rodeo?Tai and his horse Dune are preparing for a rodeo competition. When Dune mysteriously becomes ill a neighbor blames the milkweed plants in Tais pasture and tells Tai he must remove them. When Tai learns that monarch butterflies--including one he named Dana--depend on the plants he becomes conflicted. How can he save both Dune and the monarchs? Things get even more complicated when Tais mother visits. Are his parents getting back together? As Tai struggles to save Dune the butterflies and his family he learns relationships arent as simple as hed thought.Racing with Butterflies is engaging fun to read and accurate in its depiction of monarch natural history--it will draw in young readers while helping them understand why we should all care for monarchs.--Dr. Scott Black executive director Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation