Download the free Kindle app and start reading Kindle books instantly on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required.
Read instantly on your browser with Kindle for Web.
Using your mobile phone camera - scan the code below and download the Kindle app.
OK
Audible sample Sample
Christmas Sonata, A Hardcover – October 1, 1992
This handsome keepsake edition is destined to become a family treasure that will be shared year after year. Complete with a special foreword by Newbery Award-winning author Gary Paulsen, this touching story is sure to capture the hearts of all readers.
- Reading age9 - 12 years
- Print length80 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- Grade level4 - 6
- Dimensions5.25 x 0.5 x 7.75 inches
- PublisherDelacorte Books for Young Readers
- Publication dateOctober 1, 1992
- ISBN-100385304412
- ISBN-13978-0385304412
Customers who viewed this item also viewed
Editorial Reviews
From the Publisher
--Kirkus Reviews
From the Inside Flap
This handsome keepsake edition is destined to become a family treasure that will be shared year after year. Complete with a special foreword by Newbery Award-winning author Gary Paulsen, this touching story is sure to capture the hearts of all readers.
Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
"There is?"
She nodded. "That's how it works. If you think hard about it and want it enough there will be a Santa."
I went back into Matthew's room and sat by his bed. For a minute I thought he had gone to sleep and I looked at my coloring book and the picture of the pig and then Matthew moved.
"You're back."
"Mother says it's up to us if there's a Santa Claus or not."
"What do you mean?"
"She says if we want him, if we want him hard enough, there will be a Santa; and if we don't want him there won't be one."
He didn't say anything for a long time, and I thought he was thinking of something smart to say and that maybe he was going to swear. I thought if he swore about Mother I would leave the room again and not come back, and I didn't care if he was sick and dying or not, but he didn't.
He didn't say anything about Mother, and he didn't swear.
He looked at me, right into my eyes, and he said, "I want him to be."
And I said, "I want him to be too."
And he said, "No. I mean I want him to be, more than anything else in the whole world, more than all the things I've ever wanted, more than I want to live, I want him to be."
Product details
- Publisher : Delacorte Books for Young Readers (October 1, 1992)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 80 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0385304412
- ISBN-13 : 978-0385304412
- Reading age : 9 - 12 years
- Grade level : 4 - 6
- Item Weight : 7.2 ounces
- Dimensions : 5.25 x 0.5 x 7.75 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #3,399,811 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #9,651 in Children's Christmas Books (Books)
- Customer Reviews:
About the author
Gary Paulsen is one of the most honored writers of contemporary literature for young readers. He has written more than one hundred book for adults and young readers, and is the author of three Newberry Honor titles: Dogsong, Hatchet, and The Winter Room. He divides his time among Alaska, New Mexico, Minnesota, and the Pacific.
Customer reviews
Customer Reviews, including Product Star Ratings help customers to learn more about the product and decide whether it is the right product for them.
To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. It also analyzed reviews to verify trustworthiness.
Learn more how customers reviews work on Amazon-
Top reviews
Top reviews from the United States
There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later.
But something happened at home to make the boy stop believing in Santa Claus. When he visit his dying cousin, who also is disillusioned, they compare grim, childhood notes. How can the caring adults restsore their faith in Santa (and in Life itself? Will the lesson be long-lasting? Great read-aloud story by the fire or read-in-one-session for yourself. Recapture the basic, warm, honest feeling of Christmas!