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Alvirah Meehan, teams up with private investigator Regan Reilly to solve another Christmas mystery. This time they get in the middle of a case involving a beautiful eighty-foot blue spruce that has been chosen to spend the holidays as Rockefeller Center's famous Christmas tree, and the flask chock-full of priceless diamonds that were attached to a branch by a scam artist.

Feeling sad because no one chooses it as a Christmas tree, a bedraggled forest pine discovers the importance of being appreciated all year long.

Christmas is many things to many people. It celebrates the birth of the Christ child. It is also Saint Nicholas and Santa Claus, angels, lights, Christmas trees, cards, carols, presents, and prayers. Christmas is... peace, love, and joy.

Ruthie and her mother wonder how they will fulfill their obligation of getting the perfect Christmas tree to the town for the holiday celebration, since Papa has left the Appalachian area to go to war.

A lonely little fir tree, standing by itself at the edge of the forest, has its life transformed when a father takes it home to serve as a living Christmas tree for his bedridden son. They put golden tinsel on his branches And golden bells And green icicles And silver stars And red and green and blue and purple chains of shining Christmas balls. All alone in an empty field grew a little fir tree. It dreamed of being part of a forest-or part of anything...

Provides step-by-step instructions for making thirty different Christmas tree ornaments.

Family members admire the ornaments on their Christmas tree andshare their memories of previous holidays as evoked by the ornaments.

"A family discusses the origin of the Christmas tree as it decorates its own." --

"The animals cooperate in decorating a great fir tree in celebration of Christmas."--

Tossed out of the house, two cats fantasize about what would happen if they had their own Christmas tree.