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Christmas at Eagle Pond - Donald Hall, Mary Azarian
Christmas at Eagle Pond
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Donald Hall draws on his own childhood memories and gives himself the thing he most wanted but didn't get as a boy: a Christmas at Eagle Pond. It’s the Christmas season of 1940, and twelve-year-old Donnie takes the train to visit his grandparents' place in rural New Hampshire. Once there, he... show more
Donald Hall draws on his own childhood memories and gives himself the thing he most wanted but didn't get as a boy: a Christmas at Eagle Pond. It’s the Christmas season of 1940, and twelve-year-old Donnie takes the train to visit his grandparents' place in rural New Hampshire. Once there, he quickly settles into the farm’s routines. In the barn, Gramp milks the cows and entertains his grandson by speaking rhymed pieces, while Donnie’s eyes are drawn to an empty stall that houses a graceful, cobwebby sleigh. Now Model A's speed over the wintry roads, which must be plowed, and the beautiful sleigh has become obsolete. When the church pageant is over, the gifts are exchanged, and the remains of the Christmas feast put away, the air becomes heavy with fine snowflakes—the kind that fall at the start of a big storm—and everyone wonders, how will Donnie get back to his parents on time?
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Format: hardcover
ISBN: 9780547581484 (0547581483)
ASIN: 547581483
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages no: 96
Edition language: English
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Skulls and Coffee
Skulls and Coffee rated it
4.0 Christmas at Eagle Pond
A lovely novella of the innocence before WWII in a New England farm. Donnie spends several days leading up to and including Christmas at his grandparents milk farm in New Hampshire while his mother recuperates from surgery in Connecticut. Full of great details on how farms ran and a way of life has ...
Skulls and Coffee
Skulls and Coffee rated it
4.0 Christmas at Eagle Pond
A lovely novella of the innocence before WWII in a New England farm. Donnie spends several days leading up to and including Christmas at his grandparents milk farm in New Hampshire while his mother recuperates from surgery in Connecticut. Full of great details on how farms ran and a way of life has ...
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