Fwd: Christmas tearjerker - help wanted

[Brian Ralph <bralph@ZETA.ORG.AU>]

>From: Nola Uzzell <mops01au@yahoo.com.au>
>
>Can someone help me with the title of a Christmas
>tearjerker - novel; upper primary to lower secondary;
>set in north east USA (Maine comes to mind); snowing;
>disadvantaged kids/ foster kids; church group/
>Episcopalian? always have Christmas wish tree - but no
>real Christmas spirit; foster child wishes for a
>family; adolescent boy in church tries to set it up,
>but fails; child runs into snow; happy ending! A great
>read aloud for upper primary students.
>
>I read it this  year, and I know it is somewhere in
>the collection, but I think it may have been published
>sometime  ago. PS I think it had a blue cover!!!!!-
>which means it is probably green or grey!
>
>Thanks for your anticipated help
>
>Nola Uzzell
>Settlers Farm Campus
>South Australia
>nuzzell@settlersr7.sa.edu.au

Brian Ralph
Teacher-Librarian, Erskine Park High
In the Western Suburbs of Sydney, Australia
mailto:bralph@zeta.org.au
http://www.zeta.org.au/~brianr/

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