The Year of the Perfect Christmas Tree

Gloria Houston First published 1988

About this book

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.

Subjects

accelerated reader
children's fiction
christmas
christmas, fiction
christmas stories
christmas trees
fathers and daughters
fiction
gifts
juvenile fiction
mothers and daughters
poverty
self-sacrifice
trees, fiction
world war, 1914-1918