{"description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "For an eighth grader, Molly Williams has more than her fair share of problems. Her father has just died in a car accident, and her mother has become a withdrawn, quiet version of herself.\r\n\r\nMolly doesn\u2019t want to be seen as \u201cMiss Difficulty Overcome\u201d; she wants to make herself known to the kids at school for something other than her father\u2019s death. So she decides to join the baseball team. The boys\u2019 baseball team. Her father taught her how to throw a knuckleball, and Molly hopes it\u2019s enough to impress her coaches as well as her new teammates.\r\n\r\nOver the course of one baseball season, Molly must figure out how to redefine her relationships to things she loves, loved, and might love: her mother; her brilliant best friend, Celia; her father; her enigmatic and artistic teammate, Lonnie; and of course, baseball."}, "key": "/works/OL14976284W", "title": "The Girl Who Threw Butterflies", "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL541976A"}}], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "covers": [6303003], "subjects": ["Children's fiction", "Baseball, fiction", "Sex role, fiction", "Grief, fiction", "Mothers and daughters, fiction", "Friendship, fiction", "New york (n.y.), fiction"], "latest_revision": 5, "revision": 5, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2010-03-16T04:37:19.683180"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2022-12-17T17:54:18.002052"}}