When his special friend Cyrus McCafferty, aging benefactor to Bordenville's children, moves away, Jake celebrates their friendship by buying the giant spruce usually reserved for Cyrus, and a Christmas miracle occurs.
Every winter, a small fir tree is dug up and brought to a farmhouse to be a Christmas tree for a lame boy and every spring it is replanted in the forest.
When young Steve, who is Jewish, tells his new neighbor, Jackie Robinson, that his family does not have a Christmas tree, Jackie brings one to his neighbors, not knowing that they celebrate Hanukkah instead of Christmas.
Molly Mouse wants a glittering, sparkling Christmas tree like the one she saw in a window, so she borrows something pretty from each of the animals to put on a tree in the forest, but her tree does not look right, until something magical happens.
Lizzie thought there was something strange about the Christmas tree her family bought from Ralph's lot, but she is sure of it when she sees her mom sucked into the branches.
With their father away fighting in World War II, a little boy and girl whose family cannot afford to buy a Christmas tree find an abandoned plant in their apartment building hallway and decide to make a tree of their own. Includes instructions for a holiday craft.
