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The Christmas Sweater

by Glenn Beck

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All Eddie wants for Christmas is a bike. Eddie's Grandpa comes and tells him that he will not be receiving one but goes on to tell him that he will be receiving a Christmas sweater. Eddie is severely disappointed until he realizes all the magic and love he can have with the sweater. Even when Eddie does receive the bike, he realizes that all he wants is the sweater ("What his heart needs most"). Eddie realizes that big shiny gifts aren't what Christmas is about, but family and love.

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  kpalmer07 | Nov 23, 2009 |
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Age App: K-5
Summary: The young boy wishes with all his might for a new bike from Santa. His grandpa tells him that instead of a new bike, he is going to receive a gift that is much better! His mom made him a homemade sweater! The boy is very disappointed but after having many dreams about the amazing sweater, he learns the true power of homemade gifts. He discovers that homemade gifts hold special magic from their maker that stay with you forever! In the morning he discovers that he actually got the new bike! He is mostly excited about his new Christmas sweater after having those amazing dreams.
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  bknight07 | Nov 11, 2009 |
Reviewed by Ms McMahon (Outreach Counselor)
Awesome story about his life as a kid and good moral lesson for all of us to know. Story moral: Sometimes in life we do not always get the things we want, but the things we do get bring us more joy than we can ever imagine. ( )
  HHS-Staff | Oct 20, 2009 |
Glenn Beck's third novel, The Christmas Sweater is a fine story based loosely upon the events of his childhood. Once started, this is one of those books that you will either love or hate as the story evolves around the development of young Edward Lee’s faith and religion. I recommend this book highly for the fans of Glenn Beck and for those that are searching for questions about unconditional love in the face of tragedy. Good message, decent delivery. I give this book 4.5 out of 5. ( )
  Wiszard | Mar 23, 2009 |
Somewhat swarmy fiction disguised as memoir of a childhood (apparently bestseller, from looking at holds at the local library)
  AnneliM | Feb 10, 2009 |
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For my children,

Mary, Hannah. Raphe, and Cheyenne.

Always remember where we came from, how we got here, and Who led us into the warmth of the sunshine.
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The Christmas sweater sat on the top shelf of my closet for many years.
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A modern day Christmas Carol or It's a Wonderful Life

Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 141659485X, Hardcover)

If You Could Change Your Life by Reversing Your Biggest Regrets, Sorrows and Mistakes...Would You?

#1 New York Times bestselling author and renowned radio and television host Glenn Beck delivers an instant holiday classic about boyhood memories, wrenching life lessons, and the true meaning of the gifts we give to one another in love.

We weren't wealthy, we weren't poor -- we just were. We never wanted for anything, except maybe more time together....

When Eddie was twelve years old, all he wanted for Christmas was a bike. Although his life had gotten harder -- and money tighter -- since his father died and the family bakery closed...Eddie dreamed that somehow his mother would find a way to have his dream bike gleaming beside their modest Christmas tree that magical morning.

What he got from her instead was a sweater. "A stupid, handmade, ugly sweater" that young Eddie left in a crumpled ball in the corner of his room.

Scarred deeply by the realization that kids don't always get what they want, and too young to understand that he already owned life's most valuable treasures, that Christmas morning was the beginning of Eddie's dark and painful journey on the road to manhood. It will take wrestling with himself, his faith, and his family -- and the guidance of a mysterious neighbor named Russell -- to help Eddie find his path through the storm clouds of life and finally see the real significance of that simple gift his mother had crafted by hand with love in her heart.

Based on a deeply personal true story, The Christmas Sweater is a warm and poignant tale of family, faith and forgiveness that offers us a glimpse of our own lives -- while also making us question if we really know what's most important in them.

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