The Butterfly Revolution is a novel by author William Butler, first published in 1961. Its dark theme and subject matter have led critics to state that it is a work about "the young and evil that ranks with [works such as] Lord of the Flies

Lord of the Flies

Lord of the Flies is a novel by Nobel Prize-winning author William Golding about a group of British boys stuck on a deserted island who try to govern themselves, with disastrous results...

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Set in an American summer camp for boys, Camp High Pines, the novel is written as the diary of thirteen-year-old protagonist Winston Weyn.

Winston, an intelligent and somewhat bookish boy, is sent to Camp High Pines as a gift for his birthday.