Author and publisher: Eve Bunting, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Summary: Laura’s mother died some time ago, and now she is living together with her father and her stepmother, Jane. Laura misses her mother so much and finds it difficult to handle the new situation. Laura’s treasure is a memory string of buttons from her mother. Each button tells a story of her family’s history, one button is from her mother’s wedding dress, but the one she cherishes the most is from the nightgown her mother was wearing the day she died. One day the string breaks, and her dad and Jane help her to find all the buttons.One is missing, and Jane searches for it until she finds it. Laura starts thinking that the memory string is not only for remembering the past but also recording new memories.
Suitable for students in years: 5-7