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First electronic edition 2011
The Library of Congress has cataloged the hardcover edition as follows:
Ylvisaker, Anne.
The luck of the Buttons / Anne Ylvisaker.
p. cm.
Summary: In Iowa circa 1929, spunky twelve-year-old Tugs vows to turn her family’s luck around, with the help of a Brownie camera and a small-town mystery that only she can solve.
ISBN 978-0-7636-5066-7 (hardcover)
[1. Friendship — Fiction. 2. Luck — Fiction. 3. Family life — Iowa — Fiction. 4. Photography — Fiction. 5. Iowa — History — 20th century — Fiction. 6. Mystery and detective stories.] I. Title.
PZ7.Y57Luc 2011
[Fic] — dc22 2010039169
ISBN 978-0-7636-5461-0 (electronic)
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