"The Luck of the Buttons" by Anne Ylvisaker

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"The Luck of the Buttons" by Anne Ylvisaker

The Luck of the Buttons (Hardcover)

By Anne Ylvisaker

$15.99

ISBN-13: 9780763650667
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Candlewick, 4/2011

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When twelve-year-old tomboy Tugs Esther Button sets out to solve the mystery surrounding the new journalist in town, she is fighting her own family’s uninspiring history. Lacking any athletic prowess or artistic talents, the Button family is well-known only for its unluckiness. In fact, her family is so used to bad luck that they have a pie-making tradition that they use to cope with their catastrophes: “Pie in the Button family meant disaster... apple pies for fall funerals and custard pies for measles, mumps, and broken bones.”

But Tugs’ luck changes unexpectedly: the popular Aggie Millhouse befriends her, she writes a contest-winning essay, and she wins a new camera in the Independence Day raffle, a camera she then uses to thwart a crime.

Well-meaning but trouble-prone Tugs, living in Goodhue, Iowa, in 1929, is an endearing heroine in a heartfelt and engaging novel that will delight both middle readers and those of us who are a bit older!

Review by Shirley Wells