Helpful Score: 4
This is a sweet, little story about a boy and the people who love him. While working to earn money to buy an antique clock for his grandma he meets the man he loves like a father. He will soon need a home due to his grandmother's failing health but will he get the parents he so desperately wants. Quick and touching read.
Helpful Score: 2
Wonderful, heartwarming story about a little boy wanting to buy a nice Christmas gift for his grandma and how he discovers friends and family he so desperately needs.
This story touchs on the subjects of Alzheimer's and Adoption. I enjoyed reading this book. The story could have been longer.
Teddy Winters was eight years old that Christmas, too young to understand all the undercurrents swirling around him in the tiny Michigan town of Dreyerville. He wasn't able to value that Christmas for the miracle it truly was. Teddy only knew he wanted to buy the beautiful Victorian clock in the window of Tremont's Antiques as a gift for his grandmother, Lottie Sparks, a woman desperate to find a home before her rapidly processing Alzheimer's left him an orphan.
Teddy didn't know that in trying to buy the clock he would meet Sylvia Winters and Joe Dixon, a couple, once in love, desperate to overcome the past. He didn't know he would form a friendship with his neighbors, Floyd and Doris Culver, two people struggling to revive their long-dead marriage.
He didn't know that these people would fill his Christmas with magic and hope; that the love of his friends would change his world, and that he would forever change theirs.
Beautiful story and gift book.
Teddy didn't know that in trying to buy the clock he would meet Sylvia Winters and Joe Dixon, a couple, once in love, desperate to overcome the past. He didn't know he would form a friendship with his neighbors, Floyd and Doris Culver, two people struggling to revive their long-dead marriage.
He didn't know that these people would fill his Christmas with magic and hope; that the love of his friends would change his world, and that he would forever change theirs.
Beautiful story and gift book.
