Christmas at the J-O

9781565540873

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At the J-Bar Nothing Ranch on Christmas Eve, Patricia, Jason and theirmother are waiting alone for their father to return from his drive. With anapproaching Blizzard, they decide to go ahead and find a tree themselves, ascraggly mesquite branch that is not nearly as pretty as the cedar tree theirfather usually brings them.Patricia and Jason are snug in their beds after finishing their choresearly, when Patricia hears the corral gate banging in the wind. Not wanting hermother to find out she didn't do her chores right, she sneaks outside with Jasoninto the dangerous storm. They close the gate, but the wind and ice keeps themfrom making back to the house, so they prepare to spend the night in the barn.Worried about their father, who is still out in the cold, they make their bedson loose hay in a horse stall, not expecting the special surprise that will makethis a wonderful Christmas after all.James Rice is widely acclaimed as the South's leading author and illustratorof juvenille books. With more than 1,000,000 copies of his books in print, heranks among the nation's top authors and illustrators.