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Seventeen-year-old Amy joins her parents as frozen cargo aboard the vast spaceship Godspeed and expects to awaken on a new planet, 300 years in the future. Never could she have known that her frozen slumber would come to an end 50 years too soon and that she would be thrust into the brave new world of a spaceship that lives by its own rules.

Louisa May Alcott shines her brightest in this collection of two wonderful holiday stories that evoke the true meanings of the season: charity, hope, kinship, and love. In "A Christmas Dream, and How it Came True", ten-year-old Effie lives the life most children dream of, until a dream inspires her to consider the plight of underprivileged children. In "Rosa's Tale", young Belinda's horse is given the gift of speech - and reveals some surprises.