Angry with her mother and waiting for her father to return from his tour of duty in Afghanistan, twelve-year-old Ren runs away to an unusual boardinghouse in a nearby ghost town, Fortune, where she learns of a forgotten treasure from when the town was famous for buttons made of Mississippi River shells.
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Horn Book Guide 4/2016 Publishers Weekly 8/24/2015 School Library Journal 7/2015
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