I unfortunately did not find this book to be very good. This book is titled "The Luck of the Buttons" but the actaul luck of the buttons is only mentioned once in the whole book. this is not a bad book but it's not necessarily a good book either. I sadly found this book a bit of a waist of my time and i don't suggest reading it
The Luck of the Buttons
By Anne Ylvisaker
| Interest Level | Reading Level | Reading A-Z | ATOS | Word Count |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grades 4 - 8 | Grades 3 - 5 | T | 4.5 | 31031 |
In Iowa circa 1929, spunky twelve-year-old Tugs vows to turn her family s luck around, with the help of a Brownie camera and a small-town mystery.
Tugs Esther Button was born to a luckless family. Buttons don t presume to be singers or dancers. They aren t athletes or artists, good listeners, or model citizens. The one time a Button ever made the late Goodhue Gazette - before Harvey Moore came along with his talk of launching a new paper - was when Great Grandaddy Ike accidentally set Town Hall ablaze. Tomboy Tugs looks at her hapless family and sees her own reflection looking back until she befriends popular Aggie Millhouse, wins a new camera in the Independence Day raffle, and stumbles into a mystery only she can solve. Suddenly this is a summer of change - and by its end, being a Button may just turn out to be what one clumsy, funny, spirited, and very observant young heroine decides to make of it.
Tugs Esther Button was born to a luckless family. Buttons don t presume to be singers or dancers. They aren t athletes or artists, good listeners, or model citizens. The one time a Button ever made the late Goodhue Gazette - before Harvey Moore came along with his talk of launching a new paper - was when Great Grandaddy Ike accidentally set Town Hall ablaze. Tomboy Tugs looks at her hapless family and sees her own reflection looking back until she befriends popular Aggie Millhouse, wins a new camera in the Independence Day raffle, and stumbles into a mystery only she can solve. Suddenly this is a summer of change - and by its end, being a Button may just turn out to be what one clumsy, funny, spirited, and very observant young heroine decides to make of it.
Publisher: Candlewick
ISBN-13: 9780763660611
ISBN-10: 0763660612
Published on 8/28/2012
Binding: Paperback
Number of pages: 240
Book Reviews (15)
What I liked about the story is,Tugs went to her friends birthday party,Aggie .Fist they played beanbags.But they had to pick out a beanbag.Tugs knew that Aggie would say,thats my friend Tugs!So when tugs was going outside,she saw that she had let out their dog,Mittens.All of the girls ran after the dog.But they could not catch the dog.
Buttons are not ballerinas, they are not sports players, they are not lucky. But when Tugs Button wins two blue ribbons and a Brownie camera at a 4th of July fair she decides to go against one of the base rules of being a Button: Buttons are not lucky.
The Luck of Buttons was definitely not one of my favorite books. The book was very slow. This was book wasn't really a bad book but it wasn't a good book either.
I liked this book. It's thrilling and makes you want to keep turning the page. I give this book five stars because it was a thrilling page turner with a surprise at the end.