The Luck of the Buttons

by Anne Ylvisaker

Book Overview

In Iowa circa 1929, spunky twelve-year-old Tugs vows to turn her family's luck around, with the help of a Brownie camera and a small-town mystery. (Ages 8-12)Tugs Esther Button was born to a luckless family. Buttons don't presume to be singers or dancers. They aren't athletes or artists, good listeners, or model citizens. The one time a Button ever made the late Goodhue Gazette - before Harvey Moore came along with his talk of launching a new paper...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0763650668
• ISBN13: 9780763650667
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.2" x 7.3"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7