Summary: When her grandmother takes fourteen-year-old Agnes, her younger brother, and best friend Honey and escapes Mount Blessing, a Connecticut religious commune, Agnes clings to the faith she loves while Honey looks toward a future free of control, cruelty, and preferential treatment. 292 p., Bloomsbury.
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Eva Perry Mock-Newbery Club 
Hello!
One of high school students recently sent me this link about my novel, The Patron Saint of Butterflies, being selected by the Wake County’s Mock Newbery Award readers!
I would just like to say that I’m honored you chose my book and if you have any comments after reading it, please send them my way!!
Hope you enjoy!
Cecilia Galante
This book was amazing. It was really touching and so scary to think about Emmanuel. This is one of the best books i have read this year, and i think it could definitely be a newbery medal winner. It is distinguished, original and creative. My sister read it and she feels the same way. This is my number one choice for the Newbery medal this year.
I agree with Madeline completely. I loved the characters, I loved the plot, and I loved the writing. I finished this book two days ago and I have been rereading my favorite parts of it constantly. It is one of the best and most original books that I have read ever. Thank so very very much Cecilia Galante! T
This book was completely amazing. It was so full of emotion. I connected with the characters right away and laughed and cried (seriously, when her brother gets hurt, I was sobbing). Normally, I am not this moved by books, but this was an excellent book of healing, renewal and finding out who you really are. That you Ms. Galante for writing this amazing book. 🙂 This is definitely a good contender for the Newbery award.
This book has a unique and very engrossing plot. On the other hand I never really identified with any of the main characters, and most of the secondary characters seemed one dimensional. I thought the writing style was good, but not as distinguished as some of the other things I’ve read this year. I would recommend this as a good read to middle schoolers and up, but it is not in my top six for the mock Newbery this year.
During our First Top 3 Vote this year, the following was part of a comment made about this book:
“This impacted me greatly.”