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