The Book of Bright Ideas: A NovelBONUS: 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. |
Contents
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Section 2 | 23 |
Section 3 | 36 |
Section 4 | 48 |
Section 5 | 58 |
Section 6 | 72 |
Section 7 | 80 |
Section 8 | 96 |
Section 16 | 194 |
Section 17 | 207 |
Section 18 | 219 |
Section 19 | 230 |
Section 20 | 236 |
Section 21 | 241 |
Section 22 | 256 |
Section 23 | 268 |
Section 9 | 107 |
Section 10 | 120 |
Section 11 | 134 |
Section 12 | 146 |
Section 13 | 156 |
Section 14 | 165 |
Section 15 | 176 |
Section 24 | 276 |
Section 25 | 288 |
Section 26 | 294 |
Section 27 | 303 |
Section 28 | 309 |
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