HSPLS site
Login
My List - 0
Help
Search
My Account
Databases
HI Newspaper
eBooks/Audiobooks
Learning
PC Reservation
Reading Program
Basic
Advanced
Power
History
Search:
Title Browse
Author Browse
Subject Browse
Best Seller Browse
Music Title Browse
Video/DVD Title Browse
Journal/Newspaper Title Browse
Serial Title Browse
Series Browse (includes Bestseller List)
General Keyword
Title Keyword
Author Keyword
Subject Keyword
Name Keyword
Series Keyword
Score Title Browse
Talking Book Title Browse
Awards Note Browse
Bib No.
Barcode
Refine Search
> You're searching:
HAWAII STATE PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM
Item Information
Holdings
Summary
More Content
More by this author
Chiaverini, Jennifer, author.
Subjects
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882 -- Fiction.
Women teachers -- Fiction.
Browse Catalog
by author:
Chiaverini, Jennifer, author.
by title:
Christmas bells [lar...
MARC Display
Christmas bells [large type] / Jennifer Chiaverini.
by
Chiaverini, Jennifer, author.
Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning, 2015.
Subjects
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882 -- Fiction.
Women teachers -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9781410481900 (large print)
1410481905 (large print)
Series:
Thorndike Press large print core series.
Description:
499 pages : (large print ; 23 cm.
Edition:
Large print edition.
Requests:
0
Summary:
In 1860, the Henry Wadsworth Longfellow family celebrated Christmas at Craigie House, their home in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The publication of Longfellow's classic Revolutionary War poem, "Paul Revere's Ride," was less than a month hence, and the country's grave political unrest weighed heavily on his mind. Yet with his beloved wife, Fanny, and their five adored children at his side, the delights of the season prevailed. In present-day Boston, a dedicated teacher in the Watertown public school system is stunned by somber holiday tidings. Sophia's music program has been sacrificed to budget cuts, and she worries not only about her impending unemployment but also about the consequences to her underprivileged students. At the church where she volunteers as music director, Sophia tries to forget her cares as she leads the children's choir in rehearsal for a Christmas Eve concert. Inspired to honor a local artist, Sophia has chosen a carol set to a poem by Longfellow, moved by the glorious words he penned one Christmas Day long ago, even as he suffered great loss. Christmas Bells chronicles the events of 1863, when the peace and contentment of Longfellow's family circle was suddenly, tragically broken, cutting even deeper than the privations of wartime. Through the pain of profound loss and hardship, Longfellow's patriotism never failed, nor did the power of his language. "Christmas Bells," the poem he wrote that holiday, lives on, spoken as verse and sung as a hymn.
Copy/Holding information
Location
Collection
Call No.
Copy
Status
Library For The Blind and Print Disabled
Large Type
LT CHIAVERINI
Checked In
Add Copy to MyList
Wailuku Public Library
Large Type
LT Chiaverini
MB4
Checked In
Add Copy to MyList
Horizon Information Portal 3.25_9884
© 2001-2013
SirsiDynix
All rights reserved.