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Best Holiday Tales for Middle Grade Readers

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Book: A Certain Small Shepherd

By Rebecca Caudill

Mute boy's Christmas play becomes strangely real.

Review date: 12/12/2005

Age 5+

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Book: The First Christmas Stocking

By Elizabeth Winthrop

Sentimental but stirring Christmas story.

Review date: 12/20/2006

Age 5+

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Book: A Christmas Sonata

By Gary Paulsen

A dying boy wants to believe in Santa.

Review date: 12/20/2005

Age 7+

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Book: The Last Holiday Concert

By Andrew Clements

The kids are in charge of the holiday concert.

Review date: 11/15/2004

Age 7+

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Book: A Christmas Memory

By Truman Capote

This tale deserves to be shared every holiday.

Review date: 12/10/2006

Age 7+

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Book: A Child's Christmas in Wales

By Dylan Thomas

Gorgeous holiday treasure for school-age kids.

Review date: 12/12/2005

Age 8+

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Book: What Child Is This? A Christmas Story

By Caroline B. Cooney

Foster child wishes for a family for Christmas.

Review date: 12/20/2005

Age 8+

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Book: A Christmas Carol: In prose, being a ghost story of Christmas

By Charles Dickens

The granddaddy of Christmas stories.

Review date: 12/20/2005

Age 9+

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Book: The True Story of Christmas

By Anne Fine

The ultimate dysfunctional family Christmas.

Review date: 11/17/2003

Age 9+

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