Showing The Book of Bright Ideas by Sandra Kring

Wisconsin, 1961. Evelyn “Button†Peters is nine the summer Winnalee and her fiery-spirited older sister, Freeda, blow into her small townâ€"and from the moment she sees them, Button knows this will be a summer unlike any other. Much to her motherâ€TMs 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 motherâ€TMs 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 oneâ€"from Winnalee and her sister to Button and her familyâ€"will ever be the same.