The Luck of the Buttons

from shazzerwise

As posted on Outside of a Dog: Plucky, intelligent young girls are hardly a new concept for juvenile literature. We've got our May Amelias, our Anne Shirleys, our Hermione Grangers. So it's hard to write a character like that and make her someone new, someone exciting. This is partially where I f...

from ddbrown201

A cute story about Iowa!

from lilibrarian

Set in a small Iowa town in 1929, this is the story of a young girl born to a family, the Buttons, that never seems to get ahead. Even her name, Tugs, was a mistake. But Tugs is bright, outgoing and personable and she is determined to be the lucky Button. Good things happen to her in her small wo...

from ElizaJane

Reason for Reading: The time period attracted me. Set in 1929, small town Iowa, tomboy Tugs Button belongs to the Buttons clan, a family who just naturally expects bad luck and misfortune to come their way, if any luck is to be handed out it won't be handed to any of them because it's rigged, don...

from periwinklejane

Absolutely charming. The kind of book that makes me wish I'd grown up 70 years earlier so I could have had real adventures.