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The Christmas Marble

by George D. Durrant · 2004

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December in Rooster Creek, Utah, is fifth-grader Jake Mobley's favorite month, but this year, 1940, all he can do is worry about the cursed marble a classmate gave him just before he died.

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ChristianChristianMore like thisLess of thisChristmasChristmasMore like thisLess of this
Setting
20th century20th centuryMore like thisLess of thisUtahUtahMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
short · 70 pages

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