Description A gift from Mexico alights on Mar.a Mariposa?s windowsill on her first day of school in a brand-new country: ?.Una mariposa!? / ?A butterfly!? And with the butterfly, in comes magic. Filled from her toes to her new butterfly wings with memories of home, Mar.a knows exactly who she is. But when everything at school is different and strange, doubt begins to make Mar.a?s confidence fade away. The place she comes from, the community she loves, the magic inside her . . . does any of it really belong in her new life in the United States?