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    Buttons

    By Carol Greene

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    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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCarol Greene
    Release dateNov 12, 2012
    ISBN9781301152544
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    Carol Greene

    Carol Greene was born a storyteller but it took her many years to become a writer. She has traveled many roads, from construction worker to ballet dancer, restaurant manager to hospital janitor, Method actor to community outreach specialist for breast cancer awareness, and along every path she has found stories to tell. Her first e-book, Buttons, is dear to her heart and will be followed by a collection of short stories.

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