# Little Monarchs

**Author:** Jonathan Case
**Grade range:** Grades 4–5
**First published:** 2022
**Page count:** 0
**ISBN-13:** `9780823451395`
**ISBN-10:** `0823451399`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/little-monarchs
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

A ten-year-old girl may be the only person who can save humanity from extinction in this exciting graphic novel adventure. It’s been fifty years since a sun shift wiped out nearly all mammal life across the earth. Towns and cities are abandoned relics, autonomous machines maintain roadways, and the world is slowly being reclaimed by nature. Isolated pockets of survivors keep to themselves in underground sites, hiding from the lethal sunlight by day and coming above ground at night. 10-year-old Elvie and her caretaker, Flora, a biologist, are the only two humans who can survive during daylight because Flora made an incredible discovery – a way to make an antidote to sun sickness using the scales from monarch butterfly wings. Unfortunately, it can only be made in small quantities and has a s

## Where this book is assigned

### Garden State Children's Book Award

- **recommended** · 4th grade · New Jersey — [source: New Jersey Library Association — Garden State Children's Book Award selections (statewide children's-choice program; students vote, since 1977)](https://njla.org/garden-state-childrens-book-award)
- **recommended** · 5th grade · New Jersey — [source: New Jersey Library Association — Garden State Children's Book Award selections (statewide children's-choice program; students vote, since 1977)](https://njla.org/garden-state-childrens-book-award)

### Georgia Children's Book Award

- **recommended** · 4th grade · Georgia — [source: Georgia Children's Book Award 2025 Nominees (Grades 4-5), University of Georgia Libraries](https://guides.libs.uga.edu/c.php?g=868748&p=10220606)
- **recommended** · 5th grade · Georgia — [source: Georgia Children's Book Award 2025 Nominees (Grades 4-5), University of Georgia Libraries](https://guides.libs.uga.edu/c.php?g=868748&p=10220606)

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