# The Best Christmas Pageant Ever

**Author:** Barbara Robinson
**Grade range:** Grades 4–8
**Age range:** 9–13
**First published:** 1972
**Page count:** 85
**Genre:** Humor
**ISBN-13:** `9780842301374`
**ISBN-10:** `0842301372`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/the-best-christmas-pageant-ever
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## Themes

- brothers and sisters
- aunts
- dysfunctional families
- christmas pageants

## Where this book is recommended

### Alabama Camellia Children's Choice Book Award

- **recommended** · 4th grade · Alabama — [source: Alabama State Department of Education — Alabama Camellia Children's Choice Book Award Archive of Winners 1980-present (updated 7/6/2022) — 1980-81 4-5 grades winner](https://sites.google.com/view/camelliaawards/archive-of-past-winners)
- **recommended** · 5th grade · Alabama — [source: Alabama State Department of Education — Alabama Camellia Children's Choice Book Award Archive of Winners 1980-present (updated 7/6/2022) — 1980-81 4-5 grades winner](https://sites.google.com/view/camelliaawards/archive-of-past-winners)

### Young Hoosier Book Award

- **recommended** · 4th grade · Indiana — [source: Indiana Library Federation — Young Hoosier Book Award past winners, 1978 winner (General)](https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.ilfonline.org/resource/resmgr/yhba/yhba_pastwinners.pdf)
- **recommended** · 5th grade · Indiana — [source: Indiana Library Federation — Young Hoosier Book Award past winners, 1978 winner (General)](https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.ilfonline.org/resource/resmgr/yhba/yhba_pastwinners.pdf)
- **recommended** · 6th grade · Indiana — [source: Indiana Library Federation — Young Hoosier Book Award past winners, 1978 winner (General)](https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.ilfonline.org/resource/resmgr/yhba/yhba_pastwinners.pdf)
- **recommended** · 7th grade · Indiana — [source: Indiana Library Federation — Young Hoosier Book Award past winners, 1978 winner (General)](https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.ilfonline.org/resource/resmgr/yhba/yhba_pastwinners.pdf)
- **recommended** · 8th grade · Indiana — [source: Indiana Library Federation — Young Hoosier Book Award past winners, 1978 winner (General)](https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.ilfonline.org/resource/resmgr/yhba/yhba_pastwinners.pdf)

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