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The Christmas Doll

Audiobook
1 of 1 copy available
1 of 1 copy available

Lucy Wolcott and her younger sister Glory are two young orphans who have no one in the world but each other.

Every day, they labor from dawn to dusk in the bleak, cold shelter of a public workhouse in old London Town, where there is little to eat and the nights are cold and damp. The only light in their lives comes from the stories that Lucy invents about a family she barely remembers and a doll named Morning Glory whom Lucy promises is destined to return to them someday.

When Lucy finds an old, discarded doll, Glory is certain that it's the long-lost Morning Glory. But Morning Glory is no ordinary doll, and how she leads the girls to the most surprising turns of fortune makes for a heartwarming story that brims with love, hope, and the truest spirit of Christmas.

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    • AudioFile Magazine
      Long ago London was a terrifying place. Worrying about danger, illness, and getting caught and returned to the orphanage, Lucy must protect and provide for her sister, Glory. But it's the loving stories and gentle magic of the doll, Morning Glory, that have kept them both alive and hopeful. Although the characters are simple, the story's plot is appropriately suspenseful and predictably satisfying. Bernadette Dunne's narration is solid, making the characters real. Dunne's versatility, as she ably differentiates the characters, highlights the extremes of poverty and wealth in the lives of the different social classes and leaves the reader with a warm, hopeful feeling. W.L.S. (c) AudioFile 2006, Portland, Maine

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  • English

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  • ATOS Level:5.8
  • Lexile® Measure:820
  • Interest Level:4-8(MG)
  • Text Difficulty:3-4

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