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Also by Donald Hall:

Christmas At Eagle Pond, November 2012
Hardcover / e-Book
Unpacking the Boxes, September 2008
Hardcover
White Apples and the Taste of Stone, April 2006
Hardcover
The Best Day The Worst Day: Life with Jane Kenyon, May 2005
Hardcover
The Painted Bed, April 2002
Hardcover
Without, April 1999
Trade Size

Also by Mary Azarian:

Christmas At Eagle Pond, November 2012
Hardcover / e-Book

Christmas At Eagle Pond
Donald Hall, Mary Azarian

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
November 2012
On Sale: November 20, 2012
78 pages
ISBN: 0547581483
EAN: 9780547581484
Kindle: B006R8PDD8
Hardcover / e-Book
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Childrens | Fiction Poetry

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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