num_pages: 310
description: Wisconsin, 1961. Evelyn "Button" Peters is nine the summer Winnalee and her fiery-spirited older sister, Freeda, blow into her small town?and from the moment she sees them, Button knows this will be a summer unlike any other. Much to her mother's dismay, Button is fascinated by the Malone sisters, especially Winnalee, a feisty scrap of a thing who carries around a shiny silver urn containing her mother's ashes and a tome she calls "The Book of Bright Ideas." It is here, Winnalee tells Button, that she records everything she learns: her answers to the mysteries of life. But sometimes those mysteries conceal a truth better left buried. And when a devastating secret is suddenly revealed, dividing loyalties and uprooting lives, no one - from Winnalee and her sister to Button and her family - will ever be the same.
language: English
title: The Book of Bright Ideas
titlecomplete: The Book of Bright Ideas
genres: Adult, Chick Lit, Coming Of Age, Adult Fiction, Young Adult, Family, Historical Fiction, Contemporary, Fiction, Book Club
ratings_count: 6883
publisher: Delta Trade Paperbacks