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    The Button Sisters
    The Button Sisters
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    The Button Sisters

    By Penny Graham

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    The Button Sisters is a wonderful choice for young independent readers or as a read aloud by teachers or parents. The Button Sisters is full of humor that elementary students love and will encourage readers or listeners to want to continue to find out what will happen next. Midway through the book, the reader actually will begin knowing more than some of the characters know. There are other parts of the story that will make the reader feel the emotions that the characters are experiencing. The issues of family dynamics, friendship, ancestry and finding one’s place in the realm of things around us are all meshed into a book that has valuable lessons for readers of all ages and the gift of unconditional love that for those of us who experience, leaves our lives that much richer. The reader will be left with questions about family and a better understanding of what being a friend and having a friend means. The culminating part of the book is written with closure or as a beginning of a series if the demand is such.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenny Graham
    Release dateJun 4, 2012
    ISBN9781476485737
    The Button Sisters
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    Penny Graham

    I have lived in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina for most of my life. I have taught young children for over thirty years. I enjoy writing, traveling, hiking, yoga, theater, children, photography, music, bridge, and learning new things. As a children's advocate and believer in character clarification, I weave values into my writing. Please email me if you like my book and would like more! pennygrahamwildgoosechase@gmail.com

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      The Button Sisters - Penny Graham

      The Button Sisters

      by

      Penny Graham

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright © 2012 by Penny Graham

      All text and illustrations are the work of and copyrighted by Penny Graham, author of The Button Sisters. All rights reserved in American and International Copyright Conventions.

      Target audience: Beginning to intermediate readers ages 6 – 9.

      No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored electronically for distribution, or transmitted to others manually or electronically, without the written permission of the author.

      Cover design and book layout by Penny Graham

      For Ada, Iris, and Olive. May you always know the feel of unconditional love. ~ Mimi

      Special thanks to Roger Bacon for developing the illustrations and for the characters portrayed in pictures: Madison, Allie, Oleta, Joni, Iris, Anita, Mike, Adam, and Carolyn.

      Chapter 1

      Turning Eight

      Hold on, hold on, young lady, said Mom as Addy began pawing her way through the objects in the box. I said you could look, not grab!

      I’m sorry, Mom. I am just so excited I can’t help it, insisted Addy. I have waited so long for this day.

      Turning eight does have its advantages! said Mom as she kissed the top of her daughter’s dark brown hair. If you’ll just wait, I’ll pour all of these things out carefully on the bed so they don’t drop on the floor.

      What could drop? asked Addy as she watched the mysterious items being emptied out on to the bedspread. Right then, something caught her eye as it fell off of the bed and stopped by her foot. She bent down and picked up a strange looking wooden animal and placed it back with the other things.

      Oh, you just never know what I have been saving since I was your age, teased Mom. Saving special things has been a tradition since your grandmother was a little girl.

      "Tell me about tradition," said Addy, with even more interest.

      For a long time, the girls in our family have each had a box to save things that are special to them. I guess for your great-grandmother, she started a tradition that every daughter would continue. I am sure she had no idea that she was starting something so many other girls in the family would enjoy doing.

      "Well, how do you know something is going to be special?’ asked Addy.

      Mom smiled her dreamy smile and said, It’s just a feeling you get when you see it or hold it. You know in your heart that it is something you need to keep. The things in this box have been chosen by the girls before you!

      I don’t think I even knew my great-grandmother very well, said Addy sadly.

      You know Gigi now. You didn’t know her as a girl, of course. Some of these things were hers and maybe you will realize that she wasn’t really that different from you deep inside, mused Mom. Just touching them makes me feel warm inside.

      What is her real name? asked Addy.

      Actually, it was Caroline Rutledge when she was your age.

      When she was my age? Did she change it? questioned Addy.

      Mom laughed. "Of course she did, when she married. She married Thomas Norton so she became Caroline Rutledge Norton.

      Hmm…Does changing your name make you a different person? asked Addy.

      "Well, yes and no. She was still Caroline Rutledge deep down in her heart but she had a new identity as a wife and later as a mother. Caroline Rutledge became Caroline Norton.

      Caroline Rutledge Norton …I like that name. I am sorry I didn’t know her better, said Addy as her voice broke.

      Mom giggled as she looked at Addy expression. You do know her! She’s still your great-grandma. I have some pictures of us girls together, four generations of us! We took them the last time we visited Mom-o. Remember? Gigi lives with Mom-o now. Your grandmother was worried about Gigi living by herself now that she is getting older."

      "Why do we call her ‘Gigi’ if that’s not her name?’ asked Addy.

      Mom grinned as she admitted that it was she who had named Addy’s great-grandmother. When I was a little girl and I tried to say ‘grandmother’ all I could say was ‘Gigi’ so I guess you can blame me for that silly name.

      Didn’t she mind being called a silly name? asked Addy.

      No, I think she was so pleased to know that I recognized her as a special person in my life that I could have made her proud calling her any name!

      Mom noticed a wrinkled brow on her daughter’s forehead as she daydreamed about her relatives.

      Cheer up, said her mother as she hugged Addy closely. You may get to know more about them by the things in this box. As we have passed the box down to our daughters and our daughters’ daughters, we have added to the collection of what was placed there long before we were around.

      I think that’s sort of strange, said Addy.

      Mom whispered, Strange in a way, I guess. I think you will get a kick out of this in the long run.

      What is this? asked Addy.

      "It is a heart from a necklace your grandfather gave your grandmother back when they were dating. They were my parents. My mother gave me this heart on Valentines Day when I was eight. That was the year she let me look in

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