Kids into Books: Christmas Sonata

Author: Gary Paulsen

Illustrator: Leslie Bowman

Publisher: Macmillan, $13.95

Age Group: 8-10 years



But the next day mother came home from work and sat at the kitchen table. She put me in her lap and opened an envelope.

"We got a letter today from Marilyn. She wants us to come up and spend Christmas with them at the store in Winnipah. You'll get to see Matthew and everything. Won't that be fun?"

I had mixed feelings about going north. My uncle Ben and aunt Marilyn owned a store in the town of Winnipah. the store was right on the lake, with a dock that went out over the water. I had only been there in the summer, when we lay on the dock and watched the large green fish swim down in the cool shadows.

I had never seen it in the winter and didn't think it would be as much fun as it had been in the summer.

And Matthew was a problem as well. He had something wrong with him so that everybody said he was dying.

(Continued on p16 of Christmas Sonata).

*Next week's book: The Kids from Quiller's Bend by Marie Gibson