Flutterbye, the Butterfly, as a Second Generation Monarch Butterfly has to learn to live with the weather in her area! What a challenge! And it's a challenge for her friends the other butterflies and insects, too. Can they fly in the rain or do they need to hide somewhere?Read along with Flutterbye as she learns to deal with events that happen in short life.This book can be used as a complete unit on several topics: weather, butterflies, Monarch butterflies, etc. It is complete with suggested plans for lessons in the front of the book as well as Enrichment notes for teachers OR parents in the back of the book.Explains "life" while having fun! Reading level is high-Fourth Grade and up, but group reading by teachers and parents is recommended for inclusion of question and answer sessions. Excellent book for "spring of the year" activities on new birth, restoration, and growth. As with the first book in the series, there are NUMEROUS notes to Teachers and Parents for suggested lesson plans and/or enrichment activities, along with a glossary of words uncommon to the Fourth Grade-and-up lexicon.