| The Book of Bright Ideas Contributor(s): Kring, Sandra (Author) |
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ISBN: 0385338147 ISBN-13: 9780385338141 Publisher: Delta OUR PRICE: $16.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2006 Annotation: From the author of the "poignant [and] engrossing" ("The Washington Post") "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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Women - Fiction | Humorous - General - Fiction | Family Life - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2005056008 |
| Physical Information: 0.69" H x 5.28" W x 8.18" (0.54 lbs) 320 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Topical - Family - Topical - Friendship - Cultural Region - Midwest - Cultural Region - Upper Midwest - Geographic Orientation - Wisconsin |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |