Each button on Laura\'s Memory String represents a piece of her family history.
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..
But it\'s not the same--Jane isn\'t Mom.
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.
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.
Each button on Laura\'s Memory String represents a piece of her family history
