The year We Saved Christmas

<p>When a record-breaking blizzard buries the little mountain town of Maple Creek everything the townspeople love about Christmas seems lost; especially the beloved Christmas Eve parade. With the snowplow broken Main Street buried and grown-ups ready to cancel the celebration it looks like this year's Christmas will be nothing but silence and snow.</p><p>But ten-year-old Sophie Miller refuses to give up. Together with her brother Jack and their new neighbor Miles she comes up with a daring plan to save the town's holiday spirit; one paper bag at a time. Armed with shovels sand and imagination the kids rally the townspeople to create a glowing luminaria parade turning dark snow-covered streets into rivers of light.</p><p>As new storms roll in and hope begins to fade Sophie learns that saving Christmas isn't about perfect weather or fancy floats; it's about community courage and the small shining ways people take care of each other.</p><p>Full of heart humor and snowy wonder The Year We Saved Christmas is a cozy story about how one town; and three determined kids; learned to light up the dark.</p>