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A famous food writer lies about living on a farm, raising her children and being a good cook. In reality she is an unmarried New Yorker who can't boil an egg. When her editor says she will spend Christmas with a heroic sailor, her job is on the line.

Billy longs to believe in Santa Claus, but he finds it quite difficult to do so. His family has a dogged insistence that all of it, from the North Pole, to the elves, to Santa himself, is all just a myth. This all changes, however, on Christmas Eve, when a mysterious train visits Billy in the middle of the night, promising to take him and a group of other lucky children to the North Pole for a visit with Santa. The train's conductor, along with the...

Maria tries on her mother's wedding ring while helping make tamales for a Christmas family get-together. Panic ensues when hours later, she realizes the ring is missing.

For the first time in years, the entire Whitfield clan comes home to celebrate Christmas and learn through the drama and emotional baggage how to be a family once again.

"En una ciudad, un pequeño tamborilero de juguete aparece misteriosamente ante la puerta de la casa de un niño. El niño está encantado con el pequeño tamborilero y, a cambio, él le ofrece el único regalo que puede brindarle. Toca su tambor: rom pom pom pom, rom pom pom pom"--Cover, P. [4]. After accidentally being thrown away, a beloved toy drummer boy goes on an adventure that eventually brings him back to a warm home, where he is placed...

Greg is worried about being suspected of damaging school property while he is snowed in with his family in a cabin during Christmastime.

For the first time in years the entire Rodriguez clan comes home to Chicago to celebrate Christmas where traditions will be celebrated. During the course of this eventful week they will celebrate one member's safe return from Iraq, secrets will be revealed, old resentments forgotten, each family member will learn something about themselves and each other, and the healing power of laughter will work its magic.

"Dito es el juguete preferido de Jack. Siempre ha estado a su lado, en los buenos y malos momentos. Hasta que el dia de Nochebuena sucede algo terrible: Dito se pierde. Pero es una noche especial, una noche para los milagros y los casos perdidos, una noche en la que los objetos, incluidos los juguetes, pueden cobrar vida. Y el juguete que le han regalado a Jack, el nuevo cerdito de Navidad (el frustrante sustituto de Dito), tramara un plan muy arriesgado....

Este libro ilustrado para niños introduce y organiza canciones de Navidad en las siguientes categorías: camino a Belén, las posadas, Nochebuena, los pastores, nanas de Navidad, San José, el árbol de Navidad, aguinaldos, y los Tres Reyes Magos. Se incluyen las partituras de seis de las canciones hacia el fin. This illustrated book for children introduces and organizes Christmas songs into the following categories: on the road to Bethlehem, the...