THE 12 DAY OF CHRISTMAS... IN BOOKS

Each day for the next 12 days I will be highlighting and recommending a good book. Some will be chapter books and some will be picture books. All would make great reading during your vacation. So... here goes.

ON THE FIRST DAY OF CHRISTMAS MY LIBRARIAN GOT ME TO READ...

A CERTAIN SMALL SHEPHERD

By Rebecca Caudill

No one knows for sure why Jamie won't speak, they just know he never has. Living in the backwoods of Appalachia with his two sisters and his widowed father he manages with his quiet ways until one Christmas his teacher offers him a chance to be a shepherd in the school Christmas pageant. Nothing this exciting has ever happened to him before. When a blizzard forces the pageant to be cancelled Jamie is inconsolable. Then, a miracle happens in the hollow and Jamie becomes a real shepherd. A gentle and heartwarming story. You just might need some tissue. 64 pages.