Kathryn Lasky
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
This is going to be an odd Christmas, no doubt it. Instead of sugar plums and stockings stuffed with goodies and stacks of presents under the tree, a Time of Bounty, I am thinking of this as The Time of The Swindling. Everything is diminishing - our money, the light of day, and even the hours that Papa works. But in my heart I know we Swifts are though - hardened off like those seedlings. I just know that somehow, someway this shall be Christmas.