The Christmas sweater
A holiday tale relates the story of a thirteen-year-old boy whose final gift from his mother, a sweater, is scorned in favor of more expensive gifts before a tragic car accident ends the mother's life.
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Orphans > Fiction. Grandparents > Fiction. |
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Christmas fiction. Coming of age. Fiction. |
- ISBN: 9781416595007
- ISBN: 1416595007
- Physical Description x, 288 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm
- Edition 1st Pocket Star Books pbk. ed.
- Publisher New York : Pocket Star Books ; 2010.
- Copyright ©2008
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General Note: | Originally published: New York : Threshold Editions, 2008. |
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The Christmas Sweater
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Summary
The Christmas Sweater
#1 New York Times bestselling author and renowned radio and television host Glenn Beck delivers an instant holiday classic about boyhood memories, wrenching life lessons, and the true meaning of the gifts we give to one another in love. If you could change your life by reversing your biggest regrets, sorrows, and mistakes...would you? When Eddie was twelve years old, all he wanted for Christmas was a bike. He knew money had been tight since his father died, but Eddie dreamed that somehow his mother would find a way to afford that dream bike. What he got from her instead was a sweater. "A stupid, handmade, ugly sweater" that young Eddie left in a crumpled ball in the corner of his room. Scarred deeply by the fateful events that transpired that day, Eddie begins a dark and painful journey toward manhood. It will take wrestling with himself, his faith, and his family--and the guidance of a mysterious neighbor named Russell--to help Eddie find his life's path and finally understand the significance of that simple gift his mother had crafted with love.