The Book of Bright Ideas
Author: Kring, Sandra
ISBN: 9780385338141
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 15 Aug 2006
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback / softback
From the author of the "heartfelt"* and "engrossing"** debut novel Carry Me Home comes a sweet and sharply-drawn story of two young girls living in a world of their imagination while lives around them are thrown into disarray.
Wisconsin, 1961. Evelyn "Button" Peters is nine the summer Winnalee and her fiery-spirited older sister, Freeda, blow into her small town-and from the moment she sees them, Button knows this will be a summer unlike any other.
Much to her mother's dismay, Button is fascinated by the Malone sisters, especially Winnalee, a feisty scrap of a thing who carries around a shiny silver urn containing her mother's ashes and a tome she calls "The Book of Bright Ideas." It is here, Winnalee tells Button, that she records everything she learns- her answers to the mysteries of life. But sometimes those mysteries conceal a truth better left buried. And when a devastating secret is suddenly revealed, dividing loyalties and uprooting lives, no one-from Winnalee and her sister to Button and her family-will ever be the same.
ISBN: 9780385338141
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 15 Aug 2006
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback / softback
From the author of the "heartfelt"* and "engrossing"** debut novel Carry Me Home comes a sweet and sharply-drawn story of two young girls living in a world of their imagination while lives around them are thrown into disarray.
Wisconsin, 1961. Evelyn "Button" Peters is nine the summer Winnalee and her fiery-spirited older sister, Freeda, blow into her small town-and from the moment she sees them, Button knows this will be a summer unlike any other.
Much to her mother's dismay, Button is fascinated by the Malone sisters, especially Winnalee, a feisty scrap of a thing who carries around a shiny silver urn containing her mother's ashes and a tome she calls "The Book of Bright Ideas." It is here, Winnalee tells Button, that she records everything she learns- her answers to the mysteries of life. But sometimes those mysteries conceal a truth better left buried. And when a devastating secret is suddenly revealed, dividing loyalties and uprooting lives, no one-from Winnalee and her sister to Button and her family-will ever be the same.
