I Lived on Butterfly Hill is the story of a Jewish sixth-grade girl who's sent from her home in Chile to the United States to escape the dangers of Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship and then returns two years later to discover her parents are missing. The story's drawn from the experience of author Marjorie Agosin, who was raised in Chile by Jewish parents and moved to the United States when Pinochet took over the country. Agosin won the American Library Association's 2015 Pura Bulpre Award for authors whose work best portrays, affirms and celebrates the Latino cultural experience. I Lived on Butterfly Hill features accounts of people "disappearing," Celeste's parents fleeing death threats, her father being imprisoned, and Celeste being homesick in a brand-new country when her parents send her to live in Maine for safetly. Over the course of the novel, Celeste the dreamer is transformed into a compassionate teen who wants to help rebuild her country.