Mick Cochrane

In Mick Cochrane’s novel, The Girl Who Threw Butterflies, Molly, an eighth grader, turns to baseball as both an escape and a means of understanding the pain brought on by the death of her father just six months prior.  As her mother retreats deeper and deeper into her grief, Molly struggles to find a way to hold onto her father’s memory and turns to baseball, a pastime the two shared together. She eventually finds acceptance on the boy’s baseball team with the knuckleball (a pitch that ‘flutters like a butterfly’) her father helped her to develop. READ MORE...