Silver Packages: An Appalachian Christmas Story by Cynthia Rylant
	List Price:   $17.99 Unit Price:   $14.39 You Save:   $3.60 (20%) ISBN-10:   053130051X ISBN-13:   9780531300510 Publisher:   Scholastic Inc Edition:   illustrated Category:   Holiday Books Pub. Date:   September 1997 Pages:   32 Format:   Hardcover Ages:   5 to 8 Grades:   0 to
Awards
( NO  Children's Book Award  Nominee/Honoree  2007  Sequoyah Book Award  Nominee/Honoree  2007  Volunteer State Book Award  Nominee/Honoree  2007  Garden State Teen Book Award  Nominee/Honoree
Subjects
CHILDREN'S FICTION
Description/Notes
Every year at Christmas a rich man rides a train through Appalachia and throws gifts to the poor children who are waiting, in order to repay a debt he owes the people who live there. #'A Richard Jackson book'--Half t.p.#Every year at Christmas a rich man rides a train through Appalachia and throws gifts to the poor children who are waiting, in order to repay a debt he owes the people who live there. In Appalachia each Christmas, a boy named Frankie waits beside the tracks for the Christmas Train, which will bring presents to the children who live in coal towns and hollows. Year after year, Frankie hopes that one particular gift a very special gift will be tossed to him from that train. It is this enduring hope that will guide him to the true meaning of the season. Full color.