Liberty's Christmas

Like most everybody else in the middle of the Great Depression, sixteen-year-old Liberty Justice Jones is, well, stuck. But living smack-dab in the Lost Pines of Texas, where anyone can walk into the forest and chop a tree for free, with a debt-burdened mom who's trying to make a go of a newfangled idea called a Christmas tree farm--that's stuck bad. Especially if your dream is college. Liberty's only hope is her own wits. But if she's so smart, she wonders, why can't she figure out a way to help their family and get off this wreck of a farm? Learning of the five-hundred-dollar prize for the most beautiful Christmas tree delivered to the state capitol in Austin, Liberty hatches a plot. With the aid of their aging draft horse, Quiller, their derelict tractor, Stella, and Rudy, a kid pulled between America and Mexico and fresh off the rails, she's determined to take home the honors. With the sparkling dialogue and spunky humor that fans have come to love in her heroines, and a perceptive eye and ear for historical detail, award-winning author Randall Platt takes readers young and old on a spirited adventure set in a time when dreams were all many folks had. Also 04 Activeable in e-book formats, 978-0-89672-774-8

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
Published: 08/20/2012
ISBN: 9780896727663
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.00w x 0.90d
Award: WILLA Literary Award - Winner

Review Citations: Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 10/01/2012
School Library Journal 10/01/2012 pg. 84
Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2013 pg. 113 - Below Average, With Minor Flaw

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 155240 / Liberty's Christmas
Reading Level: 4.3 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 8