The Memory String

Author: Eve Bunting

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  • : $9.99 AUD
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  • : 9780544555471
  • : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
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  • : 0.159
  • : 30 September 2015
  • : 254mm X 254mm X 5mm
  • : United States
  • : 16.95
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  • : Eve Bunting
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  • : Paperback
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  • : English
  • : [E]
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  • : 40
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  • : full colour illustrations
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Barcode 9780544555471
9780544555471

Description

Each button on Laura's memory string represents a piece of her family history. The buttons Laura cherishes the most belonged to her mother - a button from her prom dress, a white one off her wedding dress, and a single small button from the nightgown she was wearing on the day she died. When the string breaks, Laura's new stepmother, Jane, is there to comfort Laura and search for a missing button, just as Laura's mother would have done. But it's not the same - Jane isn't Mom. In Eve Bunting's moving story, beautifully illustrated by Ted Rand, Laura discovers that a memory string is not just for remembering the past: it's also for recording new memories.

Promotion info

The search for a lost button from a cherished memory string helps a young girl cope with the emotional loss of her late mother and become more accepting of the love her stepmother has to give and new memories to be made.