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Nonfiction · 4th Grade
The Monarch Butterfly's 3,000-Mile Journey
Lexile
820L
Every fall, millions of monarch butterflies take one of the longest journeys in the animal world. They leave their summer homes in the United States and Canada and fly all the way to a small mountain forest in central Mexico. The trip is nearly 3,000 miles long.
What makes this journey so amazing is that no single butterfly makes the trip twice. The monarchs that fly south in October were born in August. By the time their great-grandchildren return north in the spring, not one of the original travelers is still alive.
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