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Gr 5–8—Thirteen-year-old Christa's plans for her cherished Christmas traditions are upended by her parents' upcoming divorce. She spends the Christmas season with her actress mother, who is performing in a production that's traveling through Europe; her father, a travel agent, remains at home in Chicago. After the initial, traumatic announcement of Christa's parents' separation, the story skips forward five weeks and then slows down again to detail Christa's journey. She spends most of the trip to Florence, Paris, and London on a heavily scheduled guided t...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Thirteen-year-old Christa can't wait to spend Christmas abroad with her parents--until they tell her they are divorcing. On the trip w...Log In or Sign Up to Read More