The Homeless Christmas Tree

Author : Leslie M. Gordon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780875653846
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Homeless Christmas Tree written by Leslie M. Gordon and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Of what use is one ugly little tree?" Atop a windswept hill, a crooked little tree stands alone . . . until one Christmas Eve, when an old woman labors up the hill with a box of ornaments, and tells the tree that he is special. He is to be the official Christmas tree for all of the homeless people in the city below! Year after year, colored balls and garland adorn the tree at Christmastime, but one year, the woman does not come. Will there be a Christmas for homeless? This story is based on actual events about a funny-looking mimosa tree that sits above a busy freeway in Fort Worth, Texas. A formerly homeless woman decorated the tree, year after year, so that the homeless would have a Christmas tree. When she died, neighbors took over the custom and now decorate it for Easter, Halloween, and other holidays as well. It can be seen on the north side of Interstate 30 near the Oakland exit.

Author : Delia Huddy
Publisher : Candlewick Press
ISBN 13 : 0763679178
Total Pages : 35 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Christmas Eve Tree written by Delia Huddy and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2016-09-27 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A homeless boy's rescue of a scrawny Christmas tree sparks a glimmer of hope that has far-reaching effects.

Author : Gerard Shields
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1524578150
Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Harry the Homeless Christmas Tree written by Gerard Shields and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2017-01-28 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to Joses Christmas tree farm where Eva, Jack, and Harry are finally grown enough to be selected. Eva glitters in garland and tinsel. Jack is strong with thick branches. The two are quickly selected by passing customers while Harry a homely tree with holes in his shrubs remains alone, shifting his branches to be more attractive. As Christmas Eve approaches, Harry stands alone on the lot. Will he be picked for Christmas or wither and die in the whipping cold? Find out in this holiday tale that defines the Christmas spirit and teaches children compassion for the nations homeless.

Author : Julie Salamon
Publisher : Paw Prints
ISBN 13 : 9781439518656
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Christmas Tree written by Julie Salamon and published by Paw Prints. This book was released on 2008-08-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At Christmas time, a nun agrees to donate to Rockefeller Center a fir tree which has been her best friend since the time she arrived at her convent as a young orphan.

Author : Tony Medina
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780439603126
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Christmas Makes Me Think written by Tony Medina and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young African American boy reflects on the spirit of Christmas and thinks of ways he can behave in more caring ways and share what he has with others.

Author : Charles Tazewell
Publisher : Ideals Publications
ISBN 13 : 9781571021212
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Littlest Tree written by Charles Tazewell and published by Ideals Publications. This book was released on 1997 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Solomon and everyone else in the Celestial City are surprised when a paltry sprig which has been lovingly decorated by a group of orphans in a war-torn city is chosen to be the Son's Birthday Tree.

Author : Joe Weil
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Painting the Christmas Trees written by Joe Weil and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Painting the Christmas Trees, Joe Weil explores the meaning of neighborhood, both its rootedness and its transience in terms of the port city of Elizabeth, New Jersey, in which he was formed as a poet. His work mixes different registers of language, from the Rust Belt working class speech of his family and friends to the poetic influences of his first reading: Roethke, Williams, Stevens, and Yeats. His Irish Catholic working class upbringing instills his poetry with a sense of communion. The poems in this book are anchored to the loss and the brio of people he has known and worked among both as a toolmaker and as a poet. He is essentially a spiritual comic in so far as his interest lies as much with the vitally ugly and broken as it does with the smoothly eloquent. Unlike many volumes of poetry, Painting the Christmas Trees is full of characters, not unlike a novel. Weil believes a poet should reclaim the name of storyteller. He is not ashamed to be one.

Author : Richard Ham
Publisher : Urlink Print & Media, LLC
ISBN 13 : 9781643671536
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Life of a Christmas Tree written by Richard Ham and published by Urlink Print & Media, LLC. This book was released on 2018-11-30 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the title refers, this is a story about a living Christmas tree named Jasper. In the beginning, Jasper himself explains how he came to be from seed to sprout at his birthplace at Christy Farms. It is there that he makes friends with his growing tray mates and a large orange orb known as a pumpkin named Oscar. Jasper was a slow grower and known as the runt of the crop and had received grief for it. Over time he and one of his tray mates grew to be two of the largest trees at Christy Farms, his fellow tray mate, and Oscar the Pumpkin win a local grow-off competition, which in turn sends them to the state fair. At the state fair, Jasper is bought at an auction by a casino mogul, and he is shipped to Las Vegas, where he experiences the life of being an official Christy Christmas tree. Through the days leading to Christmas, life was grand. Lots of attention was given to Jasper. On Christmas Eve late at night, Jasper makes friends with a special guy in a red suit that recognizes Jasper as a Christy tree. Jaspers newfound late-night friend promises Jasper a belated Christmas gift for an act of kindness Jasper had shown. After Christmas, the situation goes downhill for poor Jasper now that his job is finished, and life as he knows it seems grim. Read to see how Jasper's life turns out being a past tree of Christmas.

Author : Catherine House
Publisher : Frances Lincoln Children's Bks
ISBN 13 : 9781847801166
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Stork in a Baobab Tree written by Catherine House and published by Frances Lincoln Children's Bks. This book was released on 2011-09-27 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in Africa during the Christmas season, this is the story of a village preparing for a celebration - the birth of a child. The story is told in verse inspired by the traditional carol The Twelve Days of Christmas, but in this version by the author Catherine House the gifts are: 1 stork in a baobab tree, 2 thatched huts, 3 woven baskets, 4 market traders, 5 bright khangas, 6 women pounding, 7 children playing, 8 wooden carvings, 9 grazing goats, 10 drummers drumming, 11 dancers dancing and 12 storytellers. This is a Christmas steeped in the atmosphere of African village life, including descriptions of the objects and activities mentioned in the text.

Author : Cynthia Rylant
Publisher : Scholastic
ISBN 13 : 9780531070420
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Children of Christmas written by Cynthia Rylant and published by Scholastic. This book was released on 1993-07 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "These five stellar stories . . . can be read aloud or silently, alone or in a group, at Christmas or in July, and by adults or children. . . . Ordinary places (and) . . . ordinary people . . . suddenly become extraordinary. . . . Unforgettable fiction".--The Horn Book, starred review.