Nine Days to Christmas: A Story of Mexico

by Marie Hall Ets (Author)

Nine Days to Christmas: A Story of Mexico
Reading Level: 2nd − 3rd Grade

 Ceci eagerly awaits Las Posadas, the traditional nine-day series of yuletide celebrations. This year she'll lead the candlelight procession that reenacts Mary and Joseph's trek to Bethlehem. Meanwhile, Mother takes her to the old marketplace to choose her very first piñata. Ceci is dazzled by the colorful array of options, and after making her choice has second thoughts about the fate of her piñata once the posada takes place.

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Marie Hall Ets
Marie Hall Ets (1895-1984) wrote and illustrated 22 children's books and nonfiction books. She won the Caldecott Medal in 1960 for Nine Days to Christmas.
Ets' co-author, Aurora Labastida, was the children's librarian at the U.S. Embassy's Benjamin Franklin Library in Mexico City.
Classification
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780486815329
Lexile Measure
510
Guided Reading Level
O
Publisher
Dover Publications
Publication date
October 18, 2017
Series
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BISAC categories
JUV033150 - Juvenile Fiction | Religious | Christian - Holidays & Celebrations
JUV017010 - Juvenile Fiction | Holidays & Celebrations | Christmas & Advent
JUV030100 - Juvenile Fiction | People & Places | Mexico
Library of Congress categories
Mexico
Christmas stories
Christmas
Caldecott
Winner 1960

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