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BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Sandra Kring's A Life of Bright Ideas. 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. (less)

BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Sandra Kring's A Life of Bright Ideas. 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 (…more)