

The Curse of the Buttons
Author: Anne Ylvisaker
Narrator: Nick Podehl
Unabridged: 3 hr 7 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Candlewick on Brilliance Audio
Published: 11/11/2014
Categories: Children's Fiction, Historical Stories
Author: Anne Ylvisaker
Narrator: Nick Podehl
Unabridged: 3 hr 7 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Candlewick on Brilliance Audio
Published: 11/11/2014
Categories: Children's Fiction, Historical Stories
Anne Ylvisaker is the author of Dear Papa, which Booklist named a Top Ten First Novel for Youth; Little Klein, a Book Sense Children’s Pick and winner of numerous awards, including the Midwest Booksellers’ Choice Award; The Luck of the Buttons, an Indie Next List Selection; and its sequel, Button Down. About The Curse of the Buttons, the third book to feature the Button family, she says, “Years ago my imagination was ignited by the name on a Civil War–era tombstone that I misread as ‘Tugs Button.’ The drummer boy story I tried to write turned into one about a girl who decides to become the first lucky person in her family. I tried again and got a story about a boy, his grandfather, and football. ‘The war is a story for another time,’ Granddaddy Ike tells Ned in Button Down, but that time never comes. Until now. The Curse of the Buttons completes the Button saga, but is it the first book or the last? I’ll let you decide.”
"Ike" Button is just a young lad of 11 years old when the Button men are called up to serve in the Civil War. Set in Keokuk, Iowa, I found this book interesting since I live in Iowa. The author did a good job of incorporating the civil war, slavery, helping others, feeling left behind, and how women......more
Once war breaks out between the North and the South, all the men in the Button family volunteer to do their part. Although he's too young to go, Ike--Granddaddy Ike in the previous two books--is bound and determined to figure out a way to join them. All his plans are thwarted by two tricky neighbor......more
In this prequel to the Buttons series, we meet Grandfather Ike when he is an 11-year-old boy. It is the start of the Civil War, and his father, his brothers, and his uncles have all set off with the First Iowa regiment to fight. He is the only male left behind in his family and he wants to join them......more