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