HIT: 4th grade Christmas book

["Taylor, Tracy" <Tracy@TRIMBLE.K12.KY.US>]

Thank you to everyone that sent suggestions. The only book I've not been
able to find is of course the one my teacher wants.  I found that The
house without a Christmas tree by Rock is out of print.  We are a small
district and must have everything approved through board office purchase
orders so Amazon, etc. are out of the question for me at this point.
I'm sure we will be happy with one of the other suggestions.  Thanks
again.

Christmas Books:

What Child is This? By Caroline Cooney.

How about "The Christmas sonata" by Paulsen?  "The house without a
Christmas
tree" by Rock?, or, one of my favorites "Song of the Christmas mouse" by
Murphy.

Santa Paws & Santa Paws returns.

My students absolutely love the Great Christmas Kidnapping Caper by Jean
Van Leewan. They belly laugh when I get to the part about the "fat guy
in a red suit".
:-)
There was a fantastic book that came out last year.....I can't find it
for
you since our computer system crashed and burned (literally).....the
cover
is blue with white writing I believe. Small book--a little bit bigger
than
a paper back size, wonderful short chapters. Has to do with 2 foster
kids
being put into a home. The boy is pretty jaded by life, the
girl--younger--is just full of the wonder of Christmas. It talks about
his
life in MS/HS......how she changes him, and how he eventually saves her
life one night when she wanders away in the snow. It's a great book.
Made
me cry. I passed it onto my 6th grade advisees, and they cried. I wish I

could remember what it was called....Maybe if you do an Amazon/Barnes
and
Noble search, you'll find it? I believe it has an embossed picture on
the
cover.....maybe a church?  I just went into B & N and couldn't find
it......someone MUST know it.....it just came out.

Have you read Five Alien Elves? I read part of it to 4th grade and then
had each child read one chapter, than we mapped the book--that way they
still wanted to check it out and read it themselves but it was great
fun. Aliens flying near earth during the Christmas season believe Santa
Claus has enslaved earthlings and they zoom in to the rescue.
--
Have you considered a Hanukkah or Kwanzaa chapter book instead? (no
suggestions on titles tho)

What about Gary Paulsen's Christmas Sonata - it's fairly short.

What about Cynthia Rylant's Stories of Christmas.  (I believe that's the

title.) There are several short stories in there and some are great
(Silver
Packages).

Worst Christmas Pageant Ever

One of our 4th grades does many activities with the book by Russell E.
Erickson -  "Wharton's Christmas Eve Adventure"



Tracy Taylor
Library Media Specialist
Bedford & Milton Elementary Schools
Trimble County, KY
tracy@trimble.k12.ky.us
"I'm not organizationally challenged... I'm chaotically gifted!"

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