Buttons

buttons is a quiet novel that uses deceptively simple language to draw the reader into the heart and mind of its young protagonist. we experience only what she experiences through her five senses and vivid imagination and so live in her skin over the course of three seamless days as she strives to save her family by saving her parents' marriage. In the embrace of buttons, young readers will see themselves and mature readers will remember themselves. beautiful and heartbreaking, buttons lingers long after the final page is turned.