The year of the perfect Christmas tree : an Appalachian story / by Gloria Houston ; pictures by Barbara Cooney
- Author:
- Houston, Gloria
- Published:
- New York : Dial Books for Young Readers, a division of NAL Penguin Inc., [1988]
- Copyright Date:
- ©1988
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Physical Description:
- 32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
- Additional Creators:
- Cooney, Barbara, 1917-2000 and Dial Books for Young Readers
- Summary:
- Ruthie and her mother wonder how they will fulfill their obligation of getting the perfect Christmas tree to the town for the holiday celebration, since Papa has left the Appalachian area to go to war.
- Subject(s):
- Christmas
- Christmas trees—Juvenile fiction
- Fathers and daughters—Juvenile fiction
- Mothers and daughters—Juvenile fiction
- Self-sacrifice—Juvenile fiction
- Poverty—Juvenile fiction
- Gifts—Juvenile fiction
- World War, 1914-1918—United States—Juvenile fiction
- Appalachian Region—Juvenile fiction
- Christmas trees—Fiction
- Christmas—Fiction
- Appalachian Region—Fiction
- World War, 1914-1918—United States—Fiction
- Christmas trees
- Fathers and daughters
- Gifts
- Mothers and daughters
- Poverty
- Self-sacrifice
- Appalachian Region
- United States
- Christmas—Fiction—Juvenile fiction
- Accelerated Reader
- Appalachian region—Fiction
- World War (1914-1918)
- 1914-1918
- Genre(s):
- ISBN:
- 080370299X
9780803702998
0803703007 (lib. bdg.)
9780803703001 (lib. bdg.)
0803718373
9780803718371
0140558772
9780140558777 - Collection:
- George Meredith Christmas Collection.
- Note:
- Rare Books copy: "First edition"; (1st printing--number line beginning with 1 on t.p. verso); in publisher's navy blue cloth and paper-covered boards and original dust jacket (trade issue--$12.95 price on flap); SIGNED and dated on title-page by illustrator in year of publication.
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